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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Departmental Data (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Departmental Data (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: General Practitioner Services (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: General Practitioners are private practitioners. In an instance where a GP practice has a full list and cannot take on new patients, it is a matter for the GP practice concerned to decide to keep a waiting list of patients who wish to register with them if appropriate. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: While Naloxone is a prescription required drug various measures have been put in place to ensure that as many people as are required have access to naloxone administration courses. Currently the supply and administration of medicinal products in emergencies is done by persons engaged or employed by organisatons listed with the Health Products Regulatory Authority. The person supplying and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (7 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish to advise the Deputy that this is a matter for the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
- Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan. Rare diseases, as we know, are anything but rare. There are now more than 6,000 known rare diseases. One in 17 people in Ireland has a rare disease, which is 300,000 people. When you include the mums and dads, the brothers and sisters, and the sons and daughters who live with all of those people with a rare disease, it is...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In the public health sector, a temporary Special Scheme has been in place since July 2022 to provide special leave with pay for eligible staff in respect of Long Covid. This temporary Special Scheme has been extended a number of times, most recently in October 2023, when the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP and Reform granted a final extension, permitting the Special Scheme to run until...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive (HSE) holds responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Pension Provisions (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is an administrative matter for the Health Service Executive, the HSE has been asked to respond directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Disabilities Assessments (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Departmental Staff (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As provided for in the DPENDR Instructions to HR Managers on Ministerial Appointments, Severance and redundancy payments made by the Department of Health have been made to Ministerial personal staff who have not been appointed by way of secondment or leave of absence from other employments and who, therefore, have no job to which they are entitled to return to on cessation of office of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy is aware, the Medical Council is the independent statutory body which regulates medical practitioners in Ireland and one of the Council’s functions is to investigate complaints against registered medical practitioners. In 2023 the Medical Council received 353 complaints relating to 391 doctors across a range of complaint categories. A total of 61 complaints were referred...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (6 Mar 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: This PQ is being referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy as it relates to a service delivery matter.