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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cervical smear tests provided by the national screening service in each of the years 2012 to 2018. [9392/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials received advice from the national screening service between 25 and 28 April 2018 that recommended against the introduction of out of cycle smear tests prior to his decision to approve out of cycle smear tests. [9410/19]
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: -----and to keep the focus on reducing costs.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Fianna Fáil's choice is to provide the stability Ireland needs right now to protect the country from the threats of Brexit. Fianna Fáil's choice is to present a credible alternative to the current Government and credible solutions to the challenges this country faces in healthcare.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Sinn Féin takes the expenses.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Tucked away on the outskirts of Galway city is the Galway Autism Partnership, an amazing organisation that is providing badly needed support for children and parents. In Shankill St. Joseph's Nursing Home has revolutionised dementia care in Ireland. The National Maternity Hospital in Dublin city now has a foetal MRI scanner which greatly increases the ability to detect foetal and fatal...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: First, the Government was going to scrap the HSE, but it did not. It was going to fund healthcare via universal health insurance, but it did not. It scrapped the board of the HSE, but last year, because of CervicalCheck, it decided to put it back in place. It has now appointed it. There are ten people on it, but it turns out that not one person on it has a medical background. Matters...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Waiting times for CervicalCheck have jumped from two weeks to six months. Some 78,000 women are now waiting for results. The Government announced that the HPV test would be in place by last September and then by January, but last week the HSE told us that there was no longer a date. The Minister was asked repeatedly to stop the free test. That is documented. Last week he said in the...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: That means that there would be no Parliament for three to four months, no parliamentary oversight of CervicalCheck in having the backlog eliminated and losing any chance of getting down the cost of the children's hospital. While we all vie for votes, BAM, rightly, will continue to build and the window of opportunity will be lost.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It means that there would be no Irish Parliament in the closing weeks of Brexit. Some 45,000 jobs are at risk in every town, village and county. The Good Friday Agreement is at risk, as are cross-Border initiatives in healthcare. The agrifood sector is also at risk. It is a risk in having no hard border around the Six Counties. Most people get this.
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Most people, while utterly frustrated by the Government's performance in healthcare, agree that a general election in the closing days of Brexit would be madness. Of course, that is not the case with Sinn Féin, but we should not be surprised. It has been and remains the best friend the Brexiteers have ever had. Due to it, the only political voice from Northern Ireland heard at...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Now, weeks before the Brexit deadline, Sinn Féin would like to complete the hat trick and collapse the Dáil also, taking Ireland away from the EU table while aspects of its future are being negotiated. This is Sinn Féin's choice, on which it should be judged. Fianna Fáil's choice is to focus on eliminating the CervicalCheck backlogs, to get answers on the national...
- Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Thanks John.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding has been approved for extensions to schools (details supplied); if so, when work will commence on the projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8751/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will on report on planning permission for the new post-primary school in Charlesland, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8752/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of patronage of the new post-primary school in Charlesland, County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8753/19]
- Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Will the Minister of State outline when a health needs assessment would be used? Subsection (2) of the new section introduced by amendment No. 4 provides that without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the specific requirements referred to may include a series of matters which are then listed. Why have these matters been selected? Are they advisory in the sense of being matters...
- Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: The health needs assessment is an annual analysis.
- Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It feeds in to the HSE service plan. Is that right?
- Select Committee on Health: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does such an assessment currently include the matters listed in subsection (2) of the proposed new section?