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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...

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

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3333 and 3334 together. With regard to the detailed information sought by the Deputy, as this relates to operational issues, these Parliamentary Questions are 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (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: Hospital Services (15 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 (15 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 (15 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: As part of Sláintecare’s Healthy Living pillar, “A Healthy Weight for Ireland: Obesity Policy and Action Plan 2016-2025", Healthy Ireland has committed to implement the Ten Steps Forward. These Steps engage and co-ordinate multi-sectoral action to help reduce obesity and commit to investment in additional resources in acute and primary care settings together with enhanced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 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...

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Government has been very clear in its determination to ensure that when services reopen, they stay open. In line with Recovery and Resilience: The Path Ahead, we have been able, as planned, to facilitate the reopening of many lower risk activities, including increasing the numbers permitted at outdoor gatherings and removing the limit on the number of people who can visit each other once...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (14 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: Health Strategies (14 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The National Sexual Health Strategy, 2015-2020 was launched in October 2015.  It takes a life course approach, acknowledging the importance of developing a healthy attitude to sexuality in young people and of building on that foundation for positive sexual health and wellbeing into adulthood and older age.  It also recognises the importance of challenging stigma and discrimination...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: I thank the Deputies. Again they have articulated and acknowledged the difficulties and the anxieties the restrictions in our maternity services have placed on women and their partners during the pandemic. Such a deviation from normal practices in our maternity hospitals is of course a cause for concern and something that is deeply regrettable. However, as I noted, these measures were...