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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Recruitment Pause is still in place except for Disability services, Consultants and Graduate Nurses and Doctors. The reality is that the HSE exceeded its 2023 funded workforce targets, which is neither affordable or sustainable. As of the end of December 2023, there were 145,985 staff working in our health service. This was an increase of 8,239 since the start of January 2023. The HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (5 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 Services Staff (5 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: Nursing Homes (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regulatory Bodies (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Awaiting reply from Department.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I agree that the State needs to step in and I suggest it has done so in a significant way. We have increased the number of training places from 120 to 350 and we are supporting the ICGP in what it is doing. I am open to having directly employed GPs. In fact, in Swanlinbar, which has been referenced, there is a locum GP who is paid by the HSE to provide those services. In areas that are...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the question. Our overall ambition in government is to use technology to the fullest extent possible to keep everybody well and provide them with support in their homes where they need healthcare support. Our ambition is also to utilise it fully in community and hospital care. Several really good programmes are in place, the chronic disease management, CDM, programme...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The question was on general rural GPs but I had a sneaky suspicion we would end up talking about Swanlinbar. I acknowledge the engagement and advocacy of Deputy Smith, other Deputies and Senators on this. The matter has been much ventilated. As the Deputy will be aware, the GP who provided the service has retired. I believe it was in 2020. The HSE advertised to fill the position on...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not aware of the HSE board approval requirement. It is a clinical service and the HSE board agrees the national service plan. Any capital investment above €10,000 has to go to the board, but that is not what this is, so I am not sure what approval is being referred to. I join the Deputy's acknowledgement of the Irish Kidney Association and many other organisations such as...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am afraid this will be a very short interaction on my side; I apologise. I looked into this in detail and asked the HSE to come back with more but at the moment all I can tell the Deputy is that there is a proposal, as of course she will be aware, for an externally contracted satellite haemodialysis unit for Ennis. It is under review and that is really all I have. I am sorry; I am not...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I can certainly look into the timing of when this was initially flagged locally. All I can tell the Deputy is that it was not part of the considerations for new development funding for this year. However, it is a good idea. It would make a big difference for west Clare as well as north Clare, as she quite rightly said. I have witnessed the impact of home dialysis. We all know people,...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank both Deputies for this. I fully appreciate where they are coming from in the context of how the people they represent are genuinely worried about going to the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick. I get that. We have to do two things. We must continue to invest in Ennis Hospital. We have been investing in it year on year, we have expanded its opening hours, its...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy very much for the question. I will start by acknowledging his ongoing advocacy in terms of new medicines, including rare diseases, but obviously, this is not one of those cases. As the Deputy is aware, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines. However, it is incumbent upon all of us, as public representatives, to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I will walk through the steps regarding where this is now and where it is going. As I said, the company applied for reimbursement just in the last few weeks. That application is now undergoing a rapid review at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. The NCPE target for that is four weeks but it does not always meet it because it assesses many new medicines. Yet,...