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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (19 Nov 2020)
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: Ministerial Correspondence (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Details of my engagements to end July are set out below. Details of engagements since July will be collated and forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible. It is my intention to publish my diary quarterly in arrears on my Department’s website. Minister Donnelly’s meetings since appointment: Date Meeting with 01/07/2020 Paul...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Nov 2020)
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 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy is aware, the Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19 was published by the Government on 15 September. This Framework sets out Ireland's approach to managing and living with COVID-19 in a range of areas over the next 6 - 9 months. The Plan sets out five levels of response, each with a number of measures designed to help us all lower COVID-19 transmission...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Ireland is currently involved in an EU Procurement Exercise being operated by the European Commission on behalf of member states to procure a portfolio of suitable, safe and effective vaccines, in sufficient quantities, to combat COVID-19. I can assure the Deputy of the Government's commitment to the timely implementation of a COVID-19 immunisation programme, as soon as one or more...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: With regard to pay restoration for section 39 organisations, a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) agreement reached in October 2018 provided for pay restoration in relation to 50 pilot organisations in the first instance. Pay restoration for these bodies commenced in April 2019 with further payments due in October 2020 and October 2021 as appropriate. St Josephs Foundation...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: This season, 1.95 million doses of influenza vaccine have been purchased, which is double the amount administered last season. The HSE has procured 1.35 million doses of the Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine (QIV) for administration to all persons in an at-risk group, as well as 600,000 doses of the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) for all children aged from 2 to 12 years old inclusive....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: In October 2019 the Government approved the drafting of a Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill. Following Government approval the General Scheme was submitted to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel for drafting and separately referred to the Oireachtas Committee on Health for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny. A first draft of the Bill is awaited in the context of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Earlier this year, the Health Care Assistant initiative (whereby student nurses and midwives were offered temporary contracts as Health Care Assistants) began in April 2020 and ceased in August 2020. This was in response to the Covid-19 outbreak and was only ever intended as a temporary measure to provide additional support of to the national effort, it also offered some protection to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Transplant Services (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Organ transplant activity was significantly curtailed due to COVID-19. However, the HSE’s Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland (ODTI) worked to ensure that the most time critical and life-saving transplants proceeded, based on careful risk-benefit assessment. Renal transplant services ceased activity for a period. For liver, lung and heart transplants, donation and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 327 and 328 together. Both the Irish and British Governments are committed to maintaining, in so far as possible, the current healthcare arrangements under the Common Travel Area (CTA). Under the CTA, Irish citizens and British citizens who live in, work in, or visit the other state have the right to access publicly funded health services there. The...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Ireland and early diagnosis is crucial. According to the National Cancer Registry Ireland, latest five year survival in people diagnosed at stage 1 is 43.1%. This drops sharply to 9.4% in people diagnosed at stage 3, and to 3% in people diagnosed at stage 4. Lung cancer has been chosen as the first cancer on which to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Nov 2020)
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: Medical Cards (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 1970, eligibility for a medical card is based primarily on means. The issue of granting medical cards based on having a particular disease or illness was previously examined in 2014 by the HSE Expert Panel on Medical Need and Medical Card Eligibility. The Group concluded that it was not feasible, desirable, nor ethically justifiable to list medical conditions in priority...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (19 Nov 2020)
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 Nov 2020)
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 the deputy directly in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (19 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: While the Department does not comment on individual cases the following information sets out how a clinician may apply to the Minister for a licence to treat a patient with cannabis-based products. Ministerial Licence under Section 14 of the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977-2016 Cannabis is strictly controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977 to 2016, and the Regulations and Orders made...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2020)
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 Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2020)
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.