Results 27,321-27,340 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 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: Primary Care Centres (19 Oct 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 (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: BreastCheck, the national breast cancer screening programme, is currently operating and inviting women for screening. Due to the impact of Covid-19 and the pauses in screening in 2020 and again earlier this year, BreastCheck appointments have been delayed. It will take approximately 3 years to get through this current screening round, when it normally takes about 2 years. However, this...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (19 Oct 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 Services (19 Oct 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 (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, drafting of a bill on assisted human reproduction (AHR) and associated areas of research is ongoing by officials in my Department, in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General. This comprehensive piece of legislation will encompass the regulation, for the first time in Ireland, of a very wide range of practices, including domestic altruistic surrogacy. I...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy's question relates to a service matter, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Walk-in vaccination clinics in higher educational institutions launched w/c of 27 September 2021. The HSE has worked jointly with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and other partner educational organisations to offer an expanded range of walk-in vaccination clinics, in existing vaccination clinic locations and in temporary pop-up vaccination...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Oct 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 (19 Oct 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 (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Between 2015 and 2018 expenditure on public dental services increased from €153m to €192m (ESRI, 2021). Dental services were reduced during the pandemic as access to dental services was restricted and some HSE staff were redeployed to testing and tracing as part of the HSE’s response to the pandemic. There has also been a reduction in the numbers of dentists participating...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The EU Digital COVID Certificate Regulation allows for Digital COVID Certificates to be provided to Union citizens vaccinated in a third country provided that the Member State has been provided with reliable proof of vaccination. Ireland has launched an online portal to receive applications, which became operational for applicants vaccinated in Northern Ireland from 29th September 2021....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: An extra €30 million was provided in Budget 2022 to progress delivery of a number of national strategies, including the Cancer Strategy and investment in trauma centres and transplant programmes. €2m was allocated from the Department of Health in Budget 2021 to implement the National Carers Strategy. This funding was a first step towards delivering a “carers...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 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 Services (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: As the issues raised by the Deputy relate to operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last nineteen months as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently as a result of the ransomware attack. While significant progress was made in reducing waiting times from June 2020 onwards, the surge in Covid-19 cases in the first quarter of 2021 and the associated...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 813 and 814 together. I fully acknowledge the distress and inconvenience for patients and their families when elective procedures are cancelled, particularly for clinically urgent procedures. While every effort is made to avoid cancellation or postponement of planned procedures, the HSE has advised that planned procedures and operations can be postponed or...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Oct 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.