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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Children’s Health Ireland has advised that the Limb Reconstruction Service is a subspecialty of orthopaedic surgery and is delivered at three locations; CHI at Crumlin, CHI at Temple Street and The National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh. Acquired deformities can arise due to trauma, infection, metabolic conditions, or tumours. Circular external fixators are regularly used to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Sep 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: Medical Cards (25 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Medical Card provision is primarily based on financial assessment. In accordance with the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for a medical card is determined by the HSE, which assesses each application on a qualifying financial threshold. This is the amount of money that an individual can earn a week and still qualify for a card. It is specific to the individual’s own financial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Sep 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 Staff (25 Sep 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: Vaccination Programme (25 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 357 and 358 together. The National Immunisation Programme in Ireland, which includes the influenza immunisation programme, is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The committee's recommendations are based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Health Service Executive (HSE) provides hearing aids and associated maintenance free of charge to children under the age of 18 and to adults with a medical card. Further information regarding the HSE's audiology service can be found at: www2.hse.ie/services/audiology/. In accordance with the provisions of the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for a medical card is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: CORU is Ireland’s multi-profession health and social care regulator. CORU’s role is to protect the public by regulating the health and social care professions designated under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (as amended), including setting the standards that health and social care professionals must meet to be eligible for registration and maintaining registers...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 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: Legislative Measures (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Safeguarding adults who may be at risk of abuse is a key objective of my Department, every statutory body under its aegis and every relevant service that interacts with such adults. A framework of standards, policies and procedures for safeguarding adults in the health and social care sector is in place, and further measures are being developed to strengthen this framework. The Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments. I am conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I published the Waiting List Action Plan (WLAP) for 2025 in February, representing this Government’s commitment to reducing waiting times for patients and improving access to hospital care. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The National Ambulance Service (NAS) received a HSE National Service Plan allocation of €285 million in 2025, representing a significant increase on investment in previous years. The 2025 allocation includes €8 million in funding for new service developments, which will deliver 180 additional posts in the NAS to strengthen frontline emergency services, expand NAS alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE’s National Women and Infants Health Programme has led on the development of the National Endometriosis Framework and on the expansion of existing endometriosis services. The Framework formalises a defined clinical pathway for women with endometriosis. Following extensive engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, the Framework is being finalised for publication. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department of Health is currently developing the Policy on Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Professions. The development of an evidence-based policy is progressing, with work underway by officials in the Department of Health, in collaboration with the Health Service Executive (HSE) National Health and Social Care Professions (HSCP) office. Budget 2025 provided funding to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the current legal framework for health research in Ireland, it is already required that appropriate consent is gathered upon collection or reuse of bio-samples and that researchers obtain ethics approval prior to undertaking any health research. As such there are institutional supports in place in academic and clinical settings to ensure appropriate use of bio-samples. Officials in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (24 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A government decision was taken in July 2019 not to progress the initial draft National Research Ethics Bill and to instead prioritise secondary legislation to support national level committees for clinical trials, medical device clinical investigations and performance studies of in vitro diagnostic medical devices. Since 2022 a National Office for National Research Ethics Committees has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Sep 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: Hospital Staff (24 Sep 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: Primary Care Centres (24 Sep 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.