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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed private practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a vacancy arises in a practice with a GMS contract, the HSE becomes actively involved in the selection process to find a replacement GP. As of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The safety, wellbeing and comfort of all guests quarantining in a designated facility is a priority of the mandatory quarantine system, along with the ultimate goal of protecting public health by limiting the potential spread of COVID-19 variants of concern. All reasonable efforts will be made by both service provider staff and the on-site health team to facilitate a comfortable stay in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1958, 1959 and 1756 together. NPHET has consistently advised that outdoor settings are considerably safer than indoor ones based on national and international evidence. This was a key informing principle in the development of the 5 level framework of public health measures last September and in the Government decision last month to commence the easing of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Significant progress has been made in recent months in suppressing the virus due to the huge effort of our citizens. By working together, we have saved lives and limited the impact of the disease on society in Ireland. We all must continue to do everything possible to avoid the virus spreading. The situation will be subject to ongoing review taking account of the evolving epidemiological...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: 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 designated facility unless they are an exempted traveller under the Act. Quarantine of persons arriving from areas with a high incidence of variants of concern is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 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: Medical Cards (21 Apr 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 (21 Apr 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: Hospital Services (21 Apr 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 (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: 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 designated facility, regardless of vaccination status, unless they are an exempted traveller under the Act. A specific exemption is defined under the Health Act...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1978 and 1979 together. As these are service 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 (21 Apr 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. The HSE is currently recommending that only critical time dependent elective procedures are undertaken at this time due to the on-going and significant increased demand for bed capacity related to COVID-19. This decision was made...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. In line with the 2013 Health Act and the national framework agreed with industry, if a company would like a medicine to be reimbursed by the HSE, the company must submit an application...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Apr 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: Maternity Services (21 Apr 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: Maternity Services (21 Apr 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 (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1987 and 2149 together. On 7 April 2021, the European Medicine Agency (EMA) announced that they had concluded an investigation into a number of very rare, unusual blood clots occurring with low platelets in people following vaccination with Vaxzevria (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca). The EMA’s safety committee (PRAC) concluded that unusual blood...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1988 and 2109 together. As the Deputy will be aware, drafting of a bill on assisted human reproduction (AHR) and associated areas of research, based on the published General Scheme of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill, is ongoing by officials in my Department, in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General. I can assure the Deputy that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1991 and 2312 together. The COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Strategy sets out a provisional list of groups for vaccination. The Strategy was developed by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) and my Department, endorsed by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), and approved by Government on 8 December 2020. On the 23rdof February, I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Apr 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.