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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We can confirm that the criteria has not changed in the timeframe the Deputy has suggested. Ill Health retirement is based on an assessment by occupational health advising if an employee cannot work due to a permanent medical illness or disability. As advised previously the criteria is based on medical grounds and the employees illness or disability.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1852 together. I share the Deputy’s wish to see doctors and other health professionals fleeing the war in Ukraine gain registration with their respective regulators and take up employment here. Officials from my Department, the HSE and the health profession regulators have been actively supporting doctors fleeing the war...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Pension Provisions (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Disabilities Assessments (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Cancer Services (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1858 and 1859 together. Ireland operates a voluntary, community rated private health insurance market, meaning that individuals can choose whether or not to purchase private health insurance, and all policyholders pay the same premium for a given level of cover, regardless of their age, gender or health status. A key feature of this system is minimum...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Medicinal Products (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1866 and 1871 together. The State is committed to providing timely access to new and innovative medicines to all patients. Budgets 2021 - 2024 provided almost €130 million of dedicated funding for new drugs. This enabled the HSE to approve 194 new drugs, including 74 oncology drugs and 49 drugs for rare diseases. Budget 2025 has allocated €30...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A new National Rare Disease strategy is under development and expected to be delivered in early 2025. It aims to provide a renewed focus on rare diseases, building on the work of the National Rare Disease Plan for Ireland 2014 - 2018, to meet the needs of people living with rare diseases, their families and healthcare professionals over the next five years. In February 2024, the National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Rare Diseases and Long COVID Policy Unit has responsibility for the development of a new Rare Disease Strategy for Ireland including supporting the National Rare Disease Steering Group and the Rare Disease Patient forum; oversight of the implementation of the interim Model of Care for Long COVID; and engagement with the HSE’s National Rare Disease Office and relevant stakeholders...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My ambition is to deliver greater access for patients, including patients with a rare disease, to the latest innovative medicines. In 2023, over €3.2 billion was spent on medicines by the State. This represents nearly €1 in every €8 of public funding being spent on health. The State has made an additional €128 million available for new drugs between 2020 and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The National Rare Disease Steering Group was established in December 2023, and was tasked with developing a new National Rare Disease Strategy for Ireland. The Steering Group are expected to finalise the Strategy in the coming weeks, following which it will be presented to me for consideration before the Strategy is officially launched. I understand that the Steering Group has given...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

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