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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (15 Oct 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: Assisted Human Reproduction (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 662 and 663 together. The Children and Family Relationships Act 2015, which commenced in May 2020, protects the right to identity of donor conceived children and provides legal certainty as regards their parentage. The approach as set out in the Act further ensures the safety of donor assisted human reproduction, or DAHR, procedures, while also providing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Oct 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: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and devices; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Organisations who are in receipt of funding via Section 39 arrangements are not public bodies. They are privately owned and run organisations, and the terms and conditions of employment for staff in these organisations are ultimately between the employer and the employee. Although not the employers, the Departments are aware that staff employed across the hundreds of HSE funded organisations...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The HSE reimburses GPs for services provided under the GMS contract to medical and GP visit card holders. Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner...". The terms of the GMS contract provide that a GP shall furnish to a patient they’ve...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (15 Oct 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: Cancer Services (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The National Radiation Therapist Review has published 16 recommendations it total which aim to help and support the Radiation Therapy profession into the future. These recommendations are currently being examined by my Department regarding implementation. In Budget 2025, €33m has been secured for the National Cancer Strategy, including access to new cancer medicines, expansion of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Oct 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: Hospital Staff (15 Oct 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: Ambulance Service (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to reply to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 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 the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Oct 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 Strategies (15 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) does not test donations for Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent that causes Lyme Disease. The IBTS are not aware of any blood service that tests donations for the agent that causes Lyme disease. There are no reports in the literature that suggest that Lyme disease has ever been transmitted by blood transfusion. If a donor has been diagnosed with Lyme...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Oct 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.