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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Improving access to Scheduled Care and reducing waiting time for patients for hospital operations and procedures is a key priority for Government. The year-on-year increases to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) since Budget 2017 reflect this priority and Budget 2021 saw the funding of the NTPF increase by €25million to €130million. There was further increase announced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: My colleague the Minister for Mental Health and Older People has committed to establishing a Cross Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group. The role of the group will be to facilitate the views of stakeholders and examine workforce challenges in home support and nursing homes. Potential areas to be considered include recruitment, retention, training, career development, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government (2020) commits to the introduction of “a statutory scheme to support people to live in their own homes, which will provide equitable access to high-quality, regulated home care.” The Department is in the process of developing a statutory scheme for the financing and regulation of home-support. The new scheme will provide equitable and transparent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Undefined (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The NIAC makes recommendations on vaccination policy to my Department based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practices in relation to immunisation. On 15 November the NIAC recommended that a booster of an mRNA vaccine be offered to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Undefined (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 606, 635, 636 and 644 together. The role of testing and contact tracing, as part of the wider public health response, has been under ongoing review throughout the pandemic and will continue to be reviewed and amended in line with the epidemiological profile of the disease, its impact on healthcare utilisation and outcomes, the vaccination status of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: A safety net arrangement with private hospitals is in place which can be triggered depending on certain metrics regarding the level of Covid infection in the community or levels of hospitalisation, including ICU occupancy due to Covid. The agreement runs to the end of January 2022. The arrangement allows the HSE to invoke the agreement to access guaranteed levels of between 15% and 30% of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland has entered into seven Advance Purchase Agreements (APAs), subject to regulatory approval, for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccine from a range of manufacturers. Four vaccines have been authorised by the European Medicines Agency to date; Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech), Spikevax (Moderna), Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) and Janssen. More than 7.9 million doses of the four approved vaccines have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Undefined (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: A new National Oral Health Policy was launched in April 2019. That Policy set out the roadmap for the future provision of oral healthcare to the eligible population. It has two key goals; first, to provide the supports to enable every individual to achieve their best oral health, and second, to reduce oral health inequalities across the population, by enabling vulnerable groups to access oral...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: A range of COVID-19 epidemiological data are published regularly on the HPSC website including as follows: - The epidemiology of COVID-19 (14-day) report is currently published daily Monday to Friday. This includes a range of data on characteristics of confirmed COVID-19 cases notified in Ireland including symptom status of confirmed cases at time of test, the number of confirmed cases that...