Results 121-140 of 11,434 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department of Health is progressing with work to enable the health and social care workforce through the development of advanced skills, optimisation of skill mix, and scoping the introduction of new roles where appropriate. Developments in these areas support enhanced performance in our health service and support the health and social care workforce to work at the top of their expertise....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Oct 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 Appointments Status (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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. The Minister for Health is prohibited 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 particular query raised, as...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Oct 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 Services (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments. I am conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I published the Waiting List Action Plan (WLAP) for 2025 earlier this year, representing this Government’s commitment to reducing waiting times for patients and improving access to hospital care. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has statutory responsibility for medicine pricing and reimbursement decisions, under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. A pharmaceutical company can apply to the HSE for reimbursement for a specific indication (use) of a specific licensed medicine. Medicines can have more than one licensed indication, and each indication...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is committed to improving cancer care, ensuring better prevention, maintaining improvements in cancer survival rates, and timely access to treatments. Funding of €27.4 billion is being made available to the health service in 2026. This represents an increase of 6.2% on the funding provided for 2025. A Letter of Determination is currently being prepared and will set out...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is committed to improving cancer care, ensuring better prevention, maintaining improvements in cancer survival rates, and timely access to treatments. Funding of €27.4 billion is being made available to the health service in 2026. This represents an increase of 6.2% on the funding provided for 2025. A Letter of Determination is currently being prepared and will set out...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is committed to the implementation of the National Cancer Strategy, improving cancer care, ensuring better prevention, maintaining improvements in survival rates and timely access to treatments. Over the course of the current Strategy, the investment in cancer services has led to significant improvements in the outcomes for patients. Survival rates have improved greatly and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Planning Issues (21 Oct 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: Vacant Properties (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department of Health does not own any properties. The Department of Health occupies one building, Block 1 Miesian Plaza, 50 - 58 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, D02, as a tenant of the OPW. As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the management of the public healthcare property estate, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to you in relation to this matter. Details of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to reply to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The requested Abridged Estimates Volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 38 is attached.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My Department received a copy of the Dickson report on 20 June. My Department is still engaging with the HSE and CHI regarding assurance that the matters raised in the report have been addressed, including on the follow-up process with the individual patients and parents included in the review, following completion of the report.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In August 2023 patient safety concerns in the paediatric orthopaedic surgical services in Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street were raised. One of these serious patient safety concerns related to the use of non-CE spring implants in surgeries in Temple Street Children’s Hospital. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) were requested to carry out a review of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 825, 826 and 827 together. I am committed to continue to drive progress in paediatric spinal services. CHI advises that Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) is a surgical technique designed for children and adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis who are still growing and for whom non-operative treatments such as bracing have not worked. VBT procedures have been...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Oct 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (21 Oct 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the management of the public healthcare estate, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (21 Oct 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Oct 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.