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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (3 May 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention anddirect reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (3 May 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The funding of the Environmental Health Service is determined as part of a wider estimates process carried out with my Department and the Health Services Executive. With regard to the allocation of possible future funding, as the Deputy will appreciate, I cannot comment at this stage on the outcome of the estimates process, or matters which will be the subject of national service planning.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (3 May 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment provided access to the General Employment Permit for the role of Health Care Assistant in June 2021. The framework agreed with the Department of Health included the requirement for the permit holder to achieve a relevant Level 5 Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) qualification after two years employment in the State. Responding to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 May 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The HSE operates the EU Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS), for persons entitled under EU Regulation 883/04. The TAS is a consultant-led scheme and allows for an Ireland-based public consultant to refer a public patient who is normally resident in Ireland for treatment in the public healthcare system of another EU member state, the UK or Switzerland. As this is a service matter, I have asked...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 May 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: Hospital Equipment (3 May 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: Health Services Staff (3 May 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.
- Final Report of the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: We are awaiting final advice from the Attorney General. That is what I am trying to get.
- Final Report of the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: There are two more Wicklow Deputies to speak. I warmly welcome the opportunity to discuss the upcoming surrogacy legislation following the work of the Special Oireachtas Joint Committee on International Surrogacy. I acknowledge the enormous efforts over many years of many advocates and the surrogacy groups, some of whom are with us today in the Visitors Gallery. They are all very welcome....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I take the point made by the Deputy. We must treat the two issues in parallel. Regardless of the efforts made, or the success or failure in any specific nursing home, we must still ensure that State funding is going to these homes to protect the residents. In parallel to this, we must take the patient safety and regulatory issues very seriously. To that effect, just last night, the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy is aware, we are not in a position where we can say that management says its staff needs a pay rise therefore we simply take that out of the national pay agreements and give them the pay rise. The Deputy's party is signed up to it as is Government and these kind of issues are public sector pay issues, which need to form part of broader discussions in terms of public sector pay....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: He is answering.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Well said.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 health service reform. The regulations governing the pharmacy fee structure that were made under section 9 of the FEMPI Act 2009 expired at the end of 2019. Under the Public Service Pay and Pensions Act 2017,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs contracted under the General Medical Services Scheme are required by their contract to make suitable arrangements to enable contact to be made with them, or a locum or deputy, for emergencies outside of normal practice hours. While there is no obligation on GPs to participate in GP out of hours co-operatives as a means of meeting the contractual requirement, such services facilitate...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the HSE, as Sponsoring Agency with day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of the new Elective Hospital in Cork, to respond to you directly in relation to the matters raised.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly. I would also like to remind the Deputy that it is against Department policy to comment on individual cases.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Radon Gas Levels (27 Apr 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Radon gas is recognised as a serious threat to public health and estimated to be responsible for approximately 350 cases of lung cancer annually in Ireland. The Government has established a National Radon Control Strategy (NRCS), which is now in its second phase covering the period 2019-2024. Implementation of the strategy is overseen by an interdepartmental and agency NRCS Group chaired by...