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Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (11 May 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 (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Mandatory hotel quarantine has been introduced as one element of Ireland’s public health measures to combat the transmission of COVID-19 variants of concern. The Health Act 1947, as amended, provides that all persons arriving in Ireland from a designated state, or having travelled through a designated state in the previous 14 days, are required to undergo mandatory quarantine in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Where a GMS patient experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept him/her as a patient, the person concerned having unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area can apply to the HSE National Medical Card Unit which has the power to assign that person to a GP's GMS patient list. People who do not hold a medical card or GP visit card access GP services on a private basis and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The current Programme for Government, Our Shared Future, contains specific commitments in relation to finalising the new Sláintecare consultant contract and legislating for public-only work in public hospitals. In that regard, Government has agreed to the introduction of a public only Sláintecare Consultant contract moving towards removing private care from public hospitals. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, as the Deputy will be aware, the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) to the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus will be underpinned by a legal framework. The overall objective of this legal framework is to ensure that the new hospital will remain in State ownership, and that health services at the new hospital will be provided without religious, ethnic or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (11 May 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 (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: There has been considerable progress in reducing infection levels since the peak of the wave of infection in late 2020/early 2021 because of the widespread commitment and adherence by the public to the public health measures in place. While there is still a high level of infection nationally, the situation is considered reasonably stable and significant progress is being made in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 May 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: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (11 May 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: Vaccination Programme (11 May 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 (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I note the announcement last week by Pfizer/BioNTech to donate doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the participants of the Olympic Games, around the world. These doses of vaccine will be supplementary to the existing allocations that Ireland is administering and will be provided to Olympic and Paralympic athletes and support staff who are travelling to Tokyo to represent Ireland, the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 812 to 816, inclusive, together. It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result of the deferral of elective scheduled care activity in March, April and May of 2020, and since 2nd January 2021. This impact has been witnessed across all waiting list...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Saolta Hospital Group advises that some Mayo-based patients have been offered dialysis treatment in University Hospital Galway when the unit in Mayo University Hospital is at full capacity, and where this supports earlier access to treatment. Efforts continue to be made to support the repatriation of dialysis patients from Mayo to Mayo University Hospital for treatment closer to home. This...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 May 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: Emergency Departments (11 May 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: National Treatment Purchase Fund (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, 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 Waiting Lists (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last year as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Elective hospital care was curtailed for the first quarter of 2021, in line with the rapid increase in Covid -19 hospital admissions, with only critical time dependent elective procedures undertaken. On 23 March the HSE published the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 May 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 (11 May 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: Alcohol Pricing (11 May 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The 2013 Government Decision which envisaged that minimum unit pricing of alcohol products would be introduced in Northern Ireland and in the Republic simultaneously was revised by Government on 4 May 2021 at my request. I look forward to the implementation of this important public health measure to reduce the disease, disability and death associated with the harmful use of alcohol.