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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner 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 to...

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

Stephen Donnelly: General health checks involve a contact between a health professional and a person that is not motivated by their symptoms, and where several tests are performed to assess their general health. The goal is to prevent future illness through earlier detection of disease or risk factors, or to provide reassurance. However, few of the tests commonly included in these general or annual health...

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: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), the competent authority for medicines in Ireland, have been notified by the marketing authorisation holder that there is a shortage of tocilizumab-containing medicines caused by increasing demand for the active ingredient. The shortage is not specific to the Irish market and is global in nature, affecting multiple countries. The company...

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

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE have advised that where a patient who has a valid medical prescription for medical cannabis and whose treating clinician holds a valid Ministerial licence and who has sourced a cannabis-based product may submit an application to the HSE Corporate Pharmaceutical Unit in the PCRS for reimbursement. The HSE has advised that in the previous situations where it considered reimbursement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (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: Covid-19 Tests (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: I am advised by the HSE that the arrangements for public health sector employees returning from abroad are covered in their Occupational Guidance for employees which can be viewed online at this location: www.hse.ie/eng/staff/workplace-health-and-wellbeing-unit/cov id-19-guidance/quick-guide-for-healthcare-worker-management1 .pdf

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

Stephen Donnelly: The Digital COVID Certificate Regulation is intended to facilitate people’s fundamental right to move and reside freely and help to support the lifting of restrictions currently in place in a coordinated manner within the EU. As the Minister for Health, I am supporting the work of my Department in collaborating with relevant Departments under the leadership of the Department of...

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

Stephen Donnelly: The Digital COVID Certificate Regulation is intended to facilitate people’s fundamental right to move and reside freely and help to support the lifting of restrictions currently in place in a coordinated manner within the EU. As the Minister for Health, I am supporting the work of my Department in collaborating with relevant Departments under the leadership of the Department of...

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

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3095, 3147, 3160 and 3214 together. The Digital COVID Certificate Regulation is intended to facilitate people’s fundamental right to move and reside freely and help to support the lifting of restrictions currently in place in a coordinated manner within the EU.As the Minister for Health, I am supporting the work of my Department in collaborating with...

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

Stephen Donnelly: The Digital COVID Certificate Regulation is intended to facilitate people’s fundamental right to move and reside freely and help to support the lifting of restrictions currently in place in a coordinated manner within the EU. As the Minister for Health, I am supporting the work of my Department in collaborating with relevant Departments under the leadership of the Department of...

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

Stephen Donnelly: S.I. 135 of 2021 provides for the testing and quarantine travel measures for arrivals to Ireland from overseas based on their country of departure and whether they hold accepted evidence of vaccination, recovery or a negative RT-PCR test result. A traveller arriving to Ireland from the US who does not hold accepted evidence of vaccination or recovery, as laid out in S.I. 135 / 2021, is...

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to advise the Deputy that sanitation in schools is a matter for the Department of Education.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The development of new Primary Care Centres (PCCs) is a key component of the efforts to enhance community care, and to deliver care in a location at, or as near as possible to an individual’s home, where it is safe and clinically appropriate to do so. The most recent update available to the Department from the HSE indicates that there are currently 144 operational PCCs nationwide,...

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

Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS) provides dental care, free of charge to medical card holders aged 16 and over. These services are provided by independent dental practitioners who have a contract with the HSE. The contract is in place since 1994. The national approach to future oral health service provision will be informed by Smile agus Sláinte, the National Oral Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last sixteen 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 resultant...

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

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last sixteen 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 resultant...