Results 41-60 of 8,051 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy and I agree with him on all of these points. Yesterday at the health committee we covered some of the workforce planning issues and the expansion of training places. It is also a workforce management issue and the variation between hospitals is well noted. I am told that in the Mater there have been long-standing recruitment challenges but they have been stabilised....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In response to a series of reviews which raised corporate and clinical governance concerns at CHI, I have moved to strengthen governance and oversight structures at CHI in a range of different way. This was done via the appointment of two members of the HSE board to the board of CHI on 28 May. There are more board appointments to be made. This means that all but one members of the board...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy will note the number of resignations from the board. She has identified a series of important and serious issues, most of which we knew would be coming because of the concerns raised by whistleblowers and others. Reports were correctly commissioned with HIQA by the HSE and CHI. We knew they would come but, as she pointed out, the report that was not shared with either the HSE or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I want to be very careful of the privacy of Mikey and his family but I have met him and I have met his family. I am aware of the various issues. On foot of meeting them, I put in train a process and perhaps I might speak to the Deputy about it privately rather than on the floor of the Dáil, recognising his privacy. With regard to scoliosis and the issue of waiting times, it is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government remains committed to increasing capacity in the public system. The commitment is underpinned by unparalleled levels of investment as we move to universal access to health care. However, until the capacity is in place to meet the increased levels of demand, it is necessary in the interim to make use of all available capacity in the public and private systems to ensure that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is an excellent question. It is exactly what I have asked Bernard Gloster to do. Of course, I have to wait for the report to be able to express my confidence in the quality of the work that has come back. The Deputy may take that as a reference example. As I said my opening reply, if there was underutilised capacity, that is, as the report states, other people in the hospital could...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy raised the issue I am concerned about, namely that there are incentives to be under productive during the working week with a view to, or which have the outcome of, very busy clinics on Saturdays or bank holiday Mondays. That is exactly the sort of incentive I need to see stop. I cannot speak to the relative activity because I do not have that data. The Deputy's example is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are nine HSE rapid access symptomatic breast disease clinics nationally, as the Deputy knows. The HSE has set a target of 95% of urgent referrals being seen within ten working days. Non-urgent referrals should be seen within 12 weeks. The HSE national cancer control programme monitors the performance of these clinics. Last year, national compliance with targets was 76% for urgent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As Minister, I cannot comment on individual surgeons in CHI, the appropriate avenues for addressing issues with individual health professionals is a matter for their employer and/or referral to the appropriate professional regulatory body. Following the publication of the Thomas audit report on DDH surgery, my Department wrote to the HSE to clarify if there are any issues relevant for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can assure the Deputy that commencing this complex and far-reaching legislation is a priority for Government. I also know, Deputy, that you share that objective. I would at this point like to acknowledge your supportive and collaborative approach to progressing work on this. As you will appreciate there are a number of moving parts involved and I am pleased to say that all are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This new hospital will be state of the art and will have an impact on children, young people, and their families in Ireland for decades to come. It will be the hub in a network of care across the country, working with the regional paediatric units in Cork, Galway, and Limerick and the local paediatric units. This approach will ensure that children and young people can receive care as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I recently visited the University Hospital Waterford and saw first-hand the state-of-the-art infrastructure supporting its cardiac services. Government is committed to progressing cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) and has invested significantly in providing the resources required to support the delivery of enhanced and extended cardiac services. Construction...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There has been a succession of extant and pending reports which have raised corporate and clinical governance concerns at CHI. In response, I have moved to strengthen structures at CHI by appointing two members of the HSE Board to the Board of CHI. Work is also ongoing to ensure a smooth transition to a new chairperson and the filling of the other vacancies. Further, the Service Level...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The proposed relocation of the Rotunda hospital is at an early stage. As with all major capital developments, this project will need to progress through a series of approval stages. This is in keeping with the Infrastructure Guidelines, published in December 2023. In the meantime, the Government is investing to ensure the Rotunda continues to deliver quality care. For example, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I understand from information provided by the Deputy that a patient received a letter from the Mater Hospital Breast Clinic advising them that it was not possible to provide a date for an appointment. I appreciate that this must be extremely worrying for any patient receiving such a letter. I have asked officials from my Department to urgently liaise with the HSE to examine the situation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The ESRI report on future GP capacity requirements provides a welcome contribution to our general practice workforce planning. The report shows that as our population grows and ages over the next 15 years, and as we continue to provide more services in the community, we need to continue to increase our general practice workforce to meet the resulting additional demand for general practice...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 regulates the advertising of alcohol products. This is in order to reduce the enormous health harms associated with their consumption; non-alcohol products do not cause such harms. These products are relatively new to the market, therefore there is as yet insufficient evidence to determine whether they might have a positive health impact by encouraging...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I wish to thank the Deputy for allowing me to update the house on this matter. The need for a new Primary Care Centre (PCC) in Portumna was identified as part of the HSE’s overall primary care centre development programme. As the Deputy is aware, the HSE had previously advertised and identified a preferred developer for this new centre and construction had commenced. However, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Programme for Government commits to work toward the full digitisation of healthcare records and to support increased capital investment in health digitalisation through the National Development Plan Review which is ongoing. The Digital for Care strategy sets out the path to a single digital health record for every person in Ireland and consists of three priority initiatives under...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ireland’s health insurance market is community-rated. Health insurance premiums are based on the average cost of providing the services covered by a particular product, rather than on an individual health’s status. Insurers make predictions based on their customer base and what services they will require in the coming year and price their premiums accordingly. There are...