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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: In order to examine the significant workforce challenges in the home-support and nursing home sectors in Ireland, Minister Butler established the cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group in March 2022. Working closely with key stakeholders, the Advisory Group made 16 recommendations to address the challenges in frontline carer roles in the home support and long-term residential...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 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 (26 Apr 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 (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: 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: Health Service Executive (26 Apr 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: Cybersecurity Policy (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: It is the long-standing practice for sound reasons of security not to comment in detail on the arrangements in place with regard to the security of the devices and communications of office holders. What I can say is that in March 2022 concerns were raised regarding my devices and I was advised by the NCSC not to use my devices for a short period at the time. My devices were examined...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Repayment Scheme was a statutory scheme established under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 to repay specified pre-2005 charges for in-patient services imposed on certain persons with full medical card eligibility in public long stay facilities, including public nursing homes. The Scheme closed to new applications on 31 December 2007 in accordance with the provisions of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Last year the Government announced a once-off, ex-gratiaCOVID-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: Medical Cards (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a patient who holds a medical card or GP visit card experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept them as a patient, the person concerned having unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area (or fewer if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 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 (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 and 176 together. The Programme for Government 2020 is committed to increasing resources for the Children’s Palliative Care Programme. This will be supported by consultants with a special interest in children’s palliative care and children’s outreach nurses to coordinate care for children with life-limiting conditions and their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Apr 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: Hospital Staff (26 Apr 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: Abortion Services (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Minister for Health commenced the Review of the operation Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in line with statutory and Government commitments. The Review, led by an independent Chair, assesses the extent to which the Act’s objectives have, or have not, been achieved. Recommendations to address any barriers identified have been suggested within the Report. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Minister for Health commenced the Review of the operation Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 in line with statutory and Government commitments. The Review, led by an independent Chair, assesses the extent to which the Act’s objectives have, or have not, been achieved. Recommendations to address any barriers identified have been suggested within the Report. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank committee members for their invitation to discuss the very real challenges faced by patients in public hospitals, progress in the past three years and, critically, plans for ongoing expansion of capacity in parallel with fundamental reform of patient care. Like many of my colleagues on the committee, I have visited emergency departments across the country to hear first hand the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I share the concern of the Senators and Deputies who represent the region regarding patients in UHL. It does not get discussed much, but it is important to state that when we are discussing UHL and University Limerick Hospitals Group, the focus, quite rightly, is on what is happening in the emergency department. However, I acknowledge, and we might come to it on a different day, that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: There is healthy engagement with UHL. They have said that in order to do that they need more staff. Those staff members have been allocated. The changes to working practices have to be seen. I need to be very clear that we are not singling out the emergency department consultants. This is about senior decision-makers right across the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I have outlined some of the things we are doing about it. The hospital has an ask of Government, which we are stepping up to, and that can be seen. We have an ask of them, which is that reforms of working practices are implemented. There is also an ask, quite rightly, from the Senator and other Members who represent the region. This is to do with the services outside the hospital being...