Results 42,381-42,400 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 171. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of mandatory calorie posting. [43915/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital to St. Vincent’s University Hospital; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43918/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Remit (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 173. To ask the Minister for Health when HIQA will be given powers to regulate private health care. [43919/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours required in the future to meet the recommendations of the health service capacity review in view of the additional home support hours announced in budget 2020. [44031/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of making contraception free in 2021. [44032/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner training places being provided; and the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number to 274. [44033/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of his request to the HSE to review and extend the arrangement for giving medical cards to persons with a terminal illness under budget 2020. [44034/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100. [44035/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold for single headed households to €72. [44036/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing prescription charges. [44037/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from prescription charges in 2020. [44038/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from prescription charges in 2021 allowing for the full-year effects of the changes to be made by budget 2020. [44039/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Data (24 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of providing a community neuro-rehabilitation team in each of the nine CHO areas. [44040/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget Measures (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost in 2020 of the increase in general practitioner card coverage thresholds announced in budget 2019. [43805/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. Keegan and Dr. de Buitléir for their time and for all of the very extensive work they and their teams have done in producing the ESRI report and what is called it the de Buitléir report. Who needs a formal title on it? We all know it as the de Buitléir report. Can I ask Dr. de Buitléir about one of the things that is not recommended, maybe because it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Let us hope so. It strikes me as an extraordinary up yours to Sláintecare - not by Dr. de Buitléir, obviously- by the Government to build physical private facilities in at a time when it says it is taking them out. Dr. de Buitléir referenced in his report and in his opening statement the idea that the vast majority of private care in public hospitals is coming from patients...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It seems from the report that removing private care from public hospitals on the basis that people are still going in through the emergency department is not going to free up capacity. One is going to have the same number of patients in the hospital, but one has less money to treat them. One could argue that it is going to reduce capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I would like to ask Dr. Keegan a question. One of the things I think this comes down to, from a financial perspective, is that we have bought into the principle, but we have to pay for the principle. Does Dr. Keegan have a sense as to whether public hospitals, when they charge insurance companies for private work, fully recoup the costs with a bit of a margin? Do they recoup less than the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Sorry, I just do not want to get lost in the detail. Maybe Dr. de Buitléir knows. Does private work subsidise cover its costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: In regard to true economic costs, in cash terms, if I am running a hospital, and I am treating private patients, are their insurance companies fully covering the costs of that treatment?