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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and medical devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 708 and 711 together. In 2017, the Health Service Executive (HSE) published a National Clinical Programme for Ophthalmology, which set out a model of care regarding how the realignment of eye services from an acute hospital setting to the community would be undertaken. The HSE has been developing multidisciplinary Integrated Eye Care Teams in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 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: Laboratory Facilities (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 710, 712 to 714, inclusive, 716 and 717 together. Currently, individual hospitals manage their own arrangements for processing genomic samples, with some sites sending them overseas while others have the capacity to process certain samples in-house. The Public and Private genetic laboratories in Ireland that are accredited to the EN ISO 15189:2022 standard...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Laboratory Facilities (7 Oct 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 Waiting Lists (7 Oct 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 Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am happy to update the House on the recently reached community pharmacy agreement and to take an opportunity in this House to recognise the very significant role that pharmacists play in delivering a more accessible and integrated health service across the country. Shortly after becoming Minister for Health in January, I began engaging with the Irish Pharmacy Union, IPU. It was the first...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. Our thoughts are with Aisling as she goes through her treatment programme. On endometriosis, I want to acknowledge the many different groups that have engaged with endometriosis sufferers and the importance of all of that advocacy work. It was a step change to invite women to come into the Department when many of them feel that the Irish health system has so badly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank both Deputies. There are an additional 320 new training places via the CAO in the different colleges. That is a significant expansion. I will speak to my good colleague the Minister for further and higher education, Deputy Lawless. My responsibility is, of course, in respect of the clinical training places that must go alongside the academic piece. We moved from a sort of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87, 97 and 101 together. I thank the Deputy. Endometriosis has been under-considered by all of us, including the Department of Health and the HSE, but a significant body of work has happened in recent months. I am pleased to say that the national framework for endometriosis is now ready for publication. I am conscious that the budget is next week and we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is a master plan that is developed sequentially. The Deputy can see the complexity of the work that is going on there with the diversion of underground services. It is incredibly complex work. Deputy Connolly knows the site a great deal better than I do, of course, and it is an old site that requires considerable development work. The last thing I will do is place a timeline on it. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That seems perfectly reasonable and that is what I would do too. As the Deputy has saved me the background, I will save her reading out all of the trolley figures. I will highlight that unless Galway hospital, and the west and north west generally, start to routinely roster consultants on the public-only consultant contract at the weekends, they will continue to have the trolley...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Deputy. While in 2024, nearly 1.4 million people accessed therapy services across disciplines including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, psychology, podiatry and all of that, in many cases waiting times are wholly unacceptable. To tackle this, the Department of Health is working closely with the HSE on a targeted, programmatic...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. He might allow me to reflect on that and discuss it with my officials further. What we are trying to do to build capacity in primary care therapy services is this three-part national programme, which I will lay out for the Deputy. Workstream 1 is an analysis of regional productivity to optimise current therapy care to maximise capacity within existing resources....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. I know he has been a very strong advocate for the Gorey primary care centre, the need for which has been well identified. A tender process has been undertaken. As he is aware, a preferred provider had been selected, with a letter of intent issued in 2019. Unfortunately, that selected preferred provider encountered difficulties regarding economic viability resulting in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Investigations (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My immediate priority following the publication of the Thomas audit on 23 May 2025 was to ensure there was clinical follow-up and care for patients who had undergone pelvic osteotomy surgery. This is a once-off review to assess any complications that may exist and to determine the current clinical state. After this, patients then enter the recommended normal follow-up process. These...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Investigations (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are imminently close to appointing a lead. I would have preferred to be in a position to do that today, but I am not. It is imminent, essentially. I appreciate what the Deputy said about January. It is for this group of experts to determine their process and not for me to step across that. I expect and hope it would be done within six months but, again, if independent clinical...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Investigations (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes. We are having the third meeting today. I will meet the hip dysplasia advocacy group on Tuesday, 14 October in Leinster House. I will also make clear to all parents who may not wish to be part of an advocacy group, or be connected to that, I am here to hear from them at any stage as well. It is also important to update the House that a meeting was held with the DDH advocacy group...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. While we have already invested in the University Hospital Galway campuses, there are significant proposals, as the Deputy is aware, for further investments there. The integrated development control plan, DCP, has been informed by population health needs and clinical demand. That has been developed and now provides a clear masterplan for the sequencing and delivery of...