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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (21 Feb 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: Dental Services (21 Feb 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 (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this operational matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is part of the Health Service Executive and is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases. It also provides independent advice and timely information on the control and prevention of infectious diseases as well as carrying out disease surveillance, epidemiological investigation and related research and training....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 Feb 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: Bereavement Counselling (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: My Department provided one off funding in December 2021 of 100,000 euro to support two agencies - Anam Cara and First Light - both of whom provide bereavement services. It is expected that similar levels of recurrent funding will be provided through the HSE National Service Plan 2023. Anam Cara is a charity founded by bereaved parents to ensure all bereaved families have access to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Feb 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 Waiting Lists (21 Feb 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 Waiting Lists (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 697 and 698 together. It is recognised that waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures were too long before and have been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. While significant work continues to positively impact on waiting times and improve pathways to elective care, acute hospitals are still impacted by operational challenges arising from...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Feb 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: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health and HSE are coordinating the provision of healthcare services for more than 75,000 Ukrainian refugees under the Government's coordinated humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine. As beneficiaries of temporary protection, Ukrainian refugees are entitled to access healthcare services, on the same basis as for Irish residents. There is a simplified and streamlined...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (21 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: There have been no discrimination cases taken and won by staff of the Department against the Department over the past ten years.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Feb 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: Community Care (21 Feb 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.
- Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: -----and then by all means let us have the most heated of debates about what needs to happen around housing and health. However, would the Deputies opposite please stop pretending that the only people elected to this House who care about housing, healthcare and education are those in their parties and of the far-left? This Government has a long way to go on housing but last year-----
- Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: -----we built more social houses than in any year since the foundation of the State. The Deputies opposite will never acknowledge or accept that.
- Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Last year the number of men, women and children waiting longer than the Sláintecare targets for care fell by 11%. The Deputies opposite will never acknowledge that. All they do is come in here and preach crisis, anger and fury, which is what they were referencing in their speeches.