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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The national health policy in relation to addiction is set out in Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery; A health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017 -2025. Under the Health Act 2004, as amended, the HSE is responsible for the provision of health and personal social services including addiction services. The HSE either providers these services directly or contracts to have them...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The remit of the drugs policy unit is to coordinate the implementation of the national drugs strategy. It does not have a specific remit in regard to alcohol consumption reduction. Other units in the Department are responsible for the public health response to alcohol use. The Department provides annual funding of €130 million to the HSE and the network of Drug and Alcohol Task...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for the provision of addiction treatment services. People who present to the HSE for addiction treatment for alcohol related services are offered the same range of interventions as those who present with a drug addiction, a gambling addiction or a mental health concern, including an initial assessment, a comprehensive assessment, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces play a key role in the implementation of the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery 2017-2015. Action 50 in the strategy seeks to improve accountability across the statutory, community and voluntary sectors and strengthen the task force model. This action will be delivered by ensuring that task forces have proper arrangements in place for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2896 and 2897 together. The judgement of the High Court is to set aside the decision of an Bord Pleanála to grant permission to Merchants Quay Ireland for a supervised injecting facility and to provisionally remit the matter to the Bord for reconsideration. The matter is to be further considered by the Court in October, following submissions by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Accommodation (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2913 and 2995 together. The Department of Health has oversight responsibility for the health policy for vulnerable and socially excluded groups, including members of the Traveller and Roma communities. Responsibility for the provision of health service falls under the HSE National Social Inclusion Office, which works to improve access to mainstream health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Code (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Tax was introduced on 1st May 2018, and has now been in operation for more than three years. The introduction of the tax was an important action in the Obesity Policy and Action Plan, with the aim of combatting obesity through reducing consumption of added sugar in drinks and encouraging reformulation of products by the drinks industry. Initial indications are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2976 and 2977 together. Under the Health Act 2004, as amended, the HSE is responsible for the provision of health and personal social services including addiction services. The HSE either provides these services directly or contracts to have them provided on its behalf. Organisations providing addiction treatment services, funded by the HSE, are required to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces play a key role in the implementation of the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery 2017-2015. Action 50 in the strategy seeks to improve accountability across the statutory, community and voluntary sectors and strengthen the task force model. This action will be delivered by ensuring that task forces have proper arrangements in place for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces play a key role in the implementation of the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery 2017-2015. Action 50 in the strategy seeks to improve accountability across the statutory, community and voluntary sectors and strengthen the task force model. This action will be delivered by ensuring that task forces have proper arrangements in place for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3136 and 3137 together. The Health Research Board (HRB) recently published the National Drug and Alcohol Survey 2019/20. The survey provides information on alcohol, tobacco, and drug use amongst the general population in Ireland. It also looks at attitudes and perceptions of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and the impact on communities. The findings of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3203 and 3213 together. All food businesses must comply with the requirements of food law that are relevant to the business they operate. Regulation (EC) No. 178 of 2002 provides the general framework for the operation of food safety law, and defines a food business as “any undertaking, whether for profit or not and whether public or private, carrying...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: Following the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, a Working Group was established in April 2019 to consider the range of policy, regulatory and legislative issues arising in relation to improving access to contraception in Ireland. The Group’s high-level report, published in October 2019, identified the barriers that exist to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: This year, Healthy Ireland and Sláintecare have made a significant investment towards implementing the National Breastfeeding Action Plan. We all know how important it is that our children get the best possible start in life and this is something all Government partners have prioritised in the Programme for Government. Ireland has a culture of bottle feeding and in order to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented interruption to normal healthcare activity in 2020/2021, affecting the provision of all healthcare services, including public STI clinics. Over the last year, public STI services have re-configured services, establishing online booking systems and providing virtual appointments, in order to support service provision in line with social...