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Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In May 2024, HIQA was requested by the then Minister for Health to conduct a review of urgent and emergency care in the mid-west region with the primary objective of ensuring safe quality acute care in the region. As part of this review, HIQA was requested to consider the case for a second emergency department within the region in the context of the population changes in recent years and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Programme for Government commits to achieving accessible, affordable, and high quality healthcare for all through the ongoing implementation of Sláintecare and supported by sustained investment and leadership. I will shortly be bringing to the Government a new multiannual plan for the implementation of Sláintecare for the period 2025 onwards which will set out the pathway...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 and 137 together. Galway University Hospitals is proposing a number of projects of significant scale on its University Hospital Galway (UHG) campus on the Newcastle Road, Galway. When complete, these proposals will provide state of the art, Model 4 hospital facilities at UHG for the people of Galway and the HSE West and Northwest Region. In late...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (6 Mar 2025)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department is aware of the stress that shortages of medicines can cause for patients and healthcare professionals alike, thusly managing and mitigating medicine shortages is the subject of several workstreams across the Department and wider health service. Ireland has a multi-stakeholder Medicines Shortages Framework in place, operated by our medicines regulator, the Health Products...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 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 Facilities (6 Mar 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: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Capital investment plays a critical role in enabling and enhancing health service provision, and to drive the reforms as set out in Sláintecare. The HSE Capital Plan is an annual document that sets out the planned Health infrastructure investment within a given year. The number and cost of projects competing for inclusion in the annual Capital Plan invariably exceeds the funding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have asked the HSE, as Sponsoring Agency with day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of the new elective hospitals to respond to you directly in relation to the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 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: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Pharmacy Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Pharmacists play a crucial role delivering many important services to support the health of our communities, offering expert advice on illness, ensuring the safe supply of medicines, and delivering vaccines to the public. This includes the dispensing of medicines upon receipt of a valid prescription. The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), the Pharmacy Regulator, receives queries on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government recognises the pivotal role that staff in community and voluntary organisations play. The State depends on them to deliver the many essential services that are required across the country every day. Staff working in these sectors should be appropriately recognised and remunerated, and The Programme for Government commits to working with the voluntary sector through industrial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 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: Ambulance Service (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is an operational matter for the National Ambulance Service (NAS) I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 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: Disease Management (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The General Practitioner (GP) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme commenced in 2020 and has been rolled out on a phased basis to adult GMS (Medical Card and GP Visit Card) patients over a 4-year period. The Opportunistic Case Finding Programme identifies those at high risk of cardiovascular disease or diabetes for entry to the CDM Prevention Programme and those with undiagnosed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE.