Results 101-120 of 8,047 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (26 Jun 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: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I recognise the importance of timely access for patients to new medicines. Supported by 128 million euros of funding, in the last four years, the State has delivered access to 194 new medicines. Seventy-four (74) of these were for cancer and forty-nine (49) of these were for rare diseases. Budget 2025 allocated 30 million euro for new medicines to come from efficiencies to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is an operational matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE), the HSE has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Part 2 of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024, which commenced on 17 June 2025, provides for the first time a national legislative framework for organ donation and transplant services in Ireland. Under the legislation, all adults in Ireland are considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless they have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE to provide medical services to medical card and GP visit card holders on their behalf. GPs who hold a GMS contract are reimbursed for the services they provide through capitation payments and fee-per-item payments for certain services. Practices also receive a range of financial supports. Under the GMS...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE have appointed a Design Team for the extension to Freshford Health Centre, Co. Kilkenny. These works will include an internal reconfiguration of the existing health centre, including minor upgrade works and a proposed new extension with new clinical rooms for practice nurses and GPs, an expansion of the carpark and entrance realignment. A planning application was submitted and a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public health infrastructure, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy is aware, the National Men’s Health Action Plan was launched on November 18th, 2024. To support the implementation of the actions contained within, the HSE received €200,000 in Budget 2024 to recruit a National Lead for Men’s Health and a further €100,000 to support programme development. The recruitment process to appoint the National Lead for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising this matter. It is important to recognise the role that our healthcare workers played during the pandemic. They went beyond the call of duty, working in front-line environments, treating COVID-19 positive patients, particularly in the early days when the control measures that we now take for granted were not yet in place. In response to this, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The ESRI report on future GP capacity requirements provides a welcome contribution to our general practice workforce planning. The report highlights that as our population grows and ages, and as we continue to provide more services in the community, we need to continue to increase our general practice workforce to meet the resulting additional demand on general practice. A number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: To progress Government Ambulatory Care policy, the construction of the Surgical Hub at Cork University Hospital is progressing well and due to commence operations in 2026. This new facility will play an important role in separating scheduled and unscheduled care, reducing waiting times and improving care for patients. In relation to the proposed elective hospital for Cork in Sarsfield...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It was expected that the final report regarding HIQA’s review of urgent and emergency care in the Mid West region would be provided to me by the end of May 2025. However, HIQA has recently updated me of a revised timeline for completion of the final report, which is now expected to be September 2025. Overall, the HIQA work on the review of urgent and emergency healthcare services in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Injury Units are to provide unscheduled emergency care to patients with non-life-threatening or limb-threatening injuries outside of the emergency department of the acute hospital facility. Injury Units are not intended to treat complex medical conditions, pregnancy-related or gynaecological problems, injuries to the chest, abdomen or pelvis, and serious head and spine injuries. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government has invested over €5 million in specialist endometriosis care since 2021. This has funded 2 supra-regional tertiary centres and five supporting regional hubs. The supra-regional centres are managed from Cork University Maternity Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital. Regional hubs operate from the Rotunda Hospital, the Coombe Hospital, the National Maternity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the case referred to by the Deputy is before the High Court and is subject to in-camera proceedings I am limited in the information that I can provide. The Department has, however, been advised that the process is nearing completion. While I have every sympathy for the patients affected by this situation, consumer law is the responsibility of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: A key policy objective of the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 (No. 12 of 2014) is to protect children and those under 18 years of age from the risk of skin damage, in view of their increased risk of developing skin cancer. Section 4 of the Public Health (Sunbeds) Act 2014 provides for a prohibition on permitting the use of a sunbed by a person under 18 years of age on a sunbed premises;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.