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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, 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 Services (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, 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: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive (HSE) provides a wide range of medical and surgical aids and appliances, free of charge to eligible people following assessment by a relevant health professional. These are provided through community services known as Community Funded Schemes and play a key role in assisting and supporting people with diverse medical conditions to maintain everyday functioning,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government is committed to the extension of GP visit card eligibility to those who earn the median household income or less, as announced in Budget 2023. The Department of Health and the Health Service Executive (HSE) are engaged in intensive discussions with the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), representing GPs, in relation to concerns they have expressed around the roll-out of this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The expansion of GP care without charges to all children aged 6 and 7, whereby all children aged 6 and 7 will be entitled to a GP visit card based on their age, is intended to commence as early as possible. At present all children under 6 years of age are entitled to a GP visit card. Preparations have been made ahead of the expansion, and engagement between my Department and the HSE with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The New Children’s Hospital (NCH) project comprises the main hospital on a shared campus at St James’s, and two Outpatient and Urgent Care Centres at Connolly and Tallaght hospitals. Both satellite centres are now open and successfully delivering a new model of ambulatory and urgent care for children and adolescents in the Greater Dublin Area. Works are progressing well on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 293, 308 and 371 together. I recognise the significant role community pharmacists play in the delivery of patient care and acknowledge the potential for this role to be developed further in the context of healthcare service reform. In that regard, various approaches to extending the scope of practice of community pharmacists are being progressed by my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Department's records indicate the following payments were made in relation to the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. Date of Payment Name of Payee Amount paid 20-Jul-22 M-CO (Public consultation) €17,712.00 11-Nov-22 M-CO (Public consultation) ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Jun 2023)

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: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Last year the Government announced a once-off, ex-gratia COVID-19 pandemic recognition payment for certain frontline public sector healthcare workers, to recognise their unique role during the pandemic. Eligibility criteria for the payment were set following significant consideration and consultation. While the Department does not comment on individual cases, I can confirm that in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Jun 2023)

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: Departmental Expenditure (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Voluntary Health Insurance Board (the Vhi) is the only Commercial State Body under the aegis of the Department of Health. Due to the fact that it operates in a highly competitive and commercial marketplace, the amount spent by the company on consulting services and on ‘business-as-usual’ outsourcing (as differentiated under the Code of Practice for the Governance of State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jun 2023)

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: Health Services (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 302 and 384 together. 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 Service Executive (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: A Supplementary Request for Tenders to the Framework for the provision of Market Research was issued. The request related to the following scope of work; to review submissions, analyse content and draft a report summarising the high-level themes raised in the public consultation and present a high-level statistical analysis of responses received in relation to the Review of the Termination of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The development of a new Digital Health and Social Care Strategic Framework (2023-2030) is due to be completed in the coming weeks. In parallel, we are collaborating with the Health Service Executive, who will produce a corresponding implementation plan. The framework also aligns with the Government’s digital health strategy “Harnessing Digital”. The objective of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Thank you for your question which to my mind contains three distinct elements which I will address separately as follows; Firstly, medicine shortages are a feature of modern health systems worldwide and a global health problem, not unique to Ireland, with increases in demand for medications, and medicines shortages observed in the UK, throughout the EU and across the world in recent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I do not have any current plans to extend the Clinical Indemnity Caps Scheme, referred to by the Deputy, beyond the existing arrangements. However, my Department will continue to keep the matter under review.