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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland welcomes the European Medicines Agency age extension recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty to include use in children aged 12 to 15. The National Immunisation Advisory Committee is reviewing the matter and will make a recommendation as appropriate. Currently, Ireland's COVID-19 Vaccination Programme is administering vaccines to those aged 16+.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland welcomes the European Medicines Agency age extension recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty to include use in children aged 12 to 15. The National Immunisation Advisory Committee is reviewing the matter and will make a recommendation as appropriate. Currently, Ireland's COVID-19 Vaccination Programme is administering vaccines to those aged 16+.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The issue of defibrillators in schools is a matter for individual schools in the education sector. This matter relates to the work of the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Steering Group. In 2019, this Group finalised an Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy for Ireland, “Putting Survival at the Heart of the Community” and submitted it to the Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Progressing women’s health is a priority for this government. We made a strong commitment to Promoting Women’s Health in the Programme for Government and are fully committed to the development and improvement of Women’s Health services and to working with women and girls to improve their health across the whole life cycle. Underscoring the government’s commitment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: A total of €117m has been allocated in the HSE's National Service Plan 2021 for palliative care services, which represents an increase of 15.2% or €15.4m on the 2020 palliative care budget. The increased level of funding in 2021 demonstrates the Government's commitment to improving access to palliative care and end of life care services for people with life limiting conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The cost of an EHIC to a State depends on a number of variables which differ from State to State, for example: - whether the State reimburses on an average costs (based on the costs in their own State), or actual costs, basis, - the level of usage of the EHIC by any particular population or cohort within a State, - the States most commonly visited, etc.. Neither my officials, nor the HSE,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Research Board (HRB) is the State Agency under the Department of Health that supports and funds health and social care research and provides evidence to inform policy and practice. During 2021 the HRB published its new 2021-2025 strategy with the vision of “Better health through excellent research, data and evidence.” Budget 2021 provided a core allocation (net...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In Budget 2021, significant investment of €25m was allocated to implement a programme of structured access to diagnostics services for GPs. The aim of this initiative is to address the situation whereby patients can be inappropriately referred to hospital Emergency or Outpatient Departments to access diagnostics, thus exacerbating ED overcrowding or necessitating excessive waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: A list of Health Service Executive (HSE) eHealth and ICT projects, together with details of funding provision made has been published in the HSE Service Plan 2021, a copy of which is provided for ease of reference. The Deputy will be aware that HSE ICT systems were shutdown and HSE resources have been diverted to contain and respond to the recent cyberattack on the HSE. Focus has been on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As a multi annual programme of work, the Individual Health Identifier (IHI) is a key enabler for integrated care and eHealth and supports good clinical outcomes through the unique and safe identification of patients who interact with the health system. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the planned implementation of the IHI to many national systems was paused and instead, priority for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Women’s health is a priority for me and for this Government and one of the cornerstones in advancing women’s health is the National Maternity Strategy. This year my Department allocated very significant new development funding of €7.317m to implement the Strategy . This funding aims to ensure a renewed impetus to the implementation of the Strategy, and the ongoing roll...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Trauma Strategy recommended the introduction of an inclusive trauma system delivered by two regional networks, each with a Major Trauma Centre linked to a number of Trauma Units. The strategy recommended the Major Trauma Centres be based in Dublin and in Cork (Cork University Hospital). In April 2021, Government designated the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital as the Major...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2021 (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: A key commitment in the Programme for Government is the implementation of the Irish National Dementia Strategy, which aims to improve how we provide care for people living with dementia. The National Dementia Office, established within the HSE, oversees implementation of the Strategy. As set out in the National Service Plan 2021, additional funding of €12.9 million has been allocated...