Results 41-60 of 5,004 for speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Department of Health actively monitors data on the nature and extent of drug use, so that policies can be put in place to provide appropriate services and treatments. The National Drug Treatment Reporting System (NDTRS) is the national surveillance system that records and reports on cases of drug and alcohol treatment in Ireland. It is compiled annually to provide data to inform...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Under the 2025 Programme for Government there is a commitment to ‘Explore ways to ban commercial sunbed use’. Minister of State, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor, has established a cross departmental Working Group which has been tasked with assessing the feasibility and implications of a ban, evaluating public health, economic and regulatory considerations in order to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Dear Deputy Smyth, Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the limited availability of gluten free products in local shops and restaurants. I thank you for bringing to my attention the challenges that living with a chronic disease can bring to individuals and their families. I understand that coeliac disease, as an autoimmune disease carries with it potential further health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2295, 2296 and 2297 together. I am committed to improve access and to increase capacity in drug treatment services, including community-based services, on an equitable basis across the HSE health regions. Details of any additional funding for drug services will be announced, as usual, on Budget day.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Sexual health is a priority for this Government. The National Sexual Health Strategy, 2025-2035 (NSHS) and the first National Sexual Health Action Plan, 2025-2028 (NSHAP) were approved by Government on the 10th of June 2025 and published on 25th June 2025. The new NSHS includes significant measures to support STI and HIV awareness, prevention, testing, early detection, diagnosis and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In 2016, the Department of Health indicated its intention to introduce a food reformulation strategy for Ireland. The strategy was published in 2021 and is outlined in A Roadmap for Food Product Reformulation in Ireland. To implement the Roadmap, The Food Reformulation Task Force, a strategic partnership between the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and Healthy Ireland, was established in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP) - A Healthy Weight for Ireland - Obesity Policy and Action Plan - was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland Framework (Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025). It was developed in recognition of the growing need for a coordinated policy response to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am referring this to the HSE for direct response as the question relates to a service matter, specifically regarding the HSE's Homeless Discharge Protocol.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 1026. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the timeframe for commencement of a new school building (details supplied). [41076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 2267. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when funding from TUSLA of €28,000 will be provided to an organisation (details supplied). [40977/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons Supports (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Department of Health is committed to strengthening integrated care pathways to meet the chronic health needs of people who are homeless, based on an inclusion health model. In line with this, the HSE capital plan 2025 will provide funding to expand healthcare facilities for people experiencing homelessness. HSE South West has developed a business case for an integrated inclusion...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2571 and 2572 together. There is an interactive map of publicly-funded drug treatment and drug-related family support services, which can be accessed at www.drugsandalcohol.ie/services_map . The online tool is a partnership between the Department of Health and the Health Research Board and marks the first time a visual database of services has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2811 and 2812 together. The drug market is constantly evolving, and new and dangerous substances are constantly emerging. There is no evidence that Ireland has been impacted by fentanyl and for some time the opioid market has remained stable. Ireland has, however, seen the emergence of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which first presented on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2898 to 2900, inclusive, together. Extensive consultations with stakeholders on the successor national drugs strategy took place earlier this year. These included drug and alcohol task forces, drug and alcohol service providers, alcohol advocacy groups and public health experts. The successor national drugs strategy will consider cross cutting issues...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Department of Health and HSE have provided healthcare services for more than 118,000 Ukrainian refugees (BOTPs) together with a further 52,000 International Protection applicants (IPAs), who have arrived in Ireland since 2022. A total of €174m has been made available for the provision of healthcare service for refugees and migrants since 2022, including €50 million for 2025....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: In alignment with the commitment in the Programme for Government, the Department of Health is tasked with exploring ways to ban commercial sunbed use in Ireland. To advance this commitment, Minister of State Jennifer Murnane O’Connor has established a Cross-Departmental Working Group. This Group will assess the feasibility and implications of a ban, evaluating public health,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 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: Addiction Treatment Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: As part of the preparation of the new National Drugs Strategy, and independent evaluation of the previous National Drugs Strategy 'Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery 2017-2025' was commissioned. This evaluation was published by Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and the Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: A Healthy Weight for Ireland, the current Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland Framework (Healthy Ireland: A Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025). OPAP covers a 10-year period up to 2025 and the overall aim is to reverse obesity trends, prevent health complications, and reduce the impact of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Levels (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Association for the Study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland (ASOI) developed clinical care guidelines “Obesity in Adults: A 2022 Adapted Clinical Practice Guideline for Ireland”. They were developed with the Irish Coalition for People Living with Obesity (ICPO) and the HSE Obesity National Clinical Programme (NCP) alongside 70 specialists from all over Ireland have...