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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: iSIMPATHY was a €3.1 million EU-funded project which operated across Northern Ireland, Scotland and the border regions of the Republic of Ireland from October 2019 until March 2023. The total budget of €3,520,671 was provided through the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme, with 85% awarded by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) and the remaining 15% contributed by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Sep 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: Departmental Inquiries (8 Sep 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: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE has been asked to reply to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Medical Card provision is primarily based on financial assessment. In accordance with the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for a medical card is determined by the HSE, which assesses each application on a qualifying financial threshold. This is the amount of money that an individual can earn a week and still qualify for a card. It is specific to the individual’s own financial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I fully acknowledge the distress and inconvenience for patients and their families when hospital appointments and procedures are postponed. While every effort is made to avoid postponements, they can happen for a variety of reasons, including capacity issues due to increased scheduled and unscheduled care demand, and unforeseen circumstances that may impact a service. Patient safety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive (HSE) holds responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 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: Mental Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy will be aware, CORU is Ireland’s multi-profession health and social care regulator. With extensive experience in introducing regulation to health and social care professions for the first time, CORU has already established twelve registers for a range of professions. CORU’s work ensures the protection of the public by regulating the work of over 30,000 health and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Sep 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE has responsibility for the development of the National Service Plan (NSP), which sets out the type and volume of health and social care services the HSE will provide for the funding it receives each year, and includes commitments in relation to the number of acute hospital beds the HSE expects to deliver in a given year. The development of NSP 2026 will be subject to my annual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy for her query in relation to the medical evacuation to Ireland of WHO approved paediatric patients from Gaza. I can advise the Deputy that Ireland continues a strong tradition of providing humanitarian assistance including through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Irish Aid humanitarian and development assistance programme, and the HSE Global Health Programme. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are currently no plans to reintroduce a vocational training programme for graduate dentists. I am aware that a 12-month Vocational Training Scheme was available between 1999 and 2011 for graduate dentists. As there was limited interest in the Scheme, this Scheme ceased in 2011. Vocational training now must be conducted under the university system, through clinical placements, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2538 and 2539 together. Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines and medical devices; therefore, I have asked the HSE for an update in this matter. The HSE is committed to providing access to as many medicines as possible, in as timely a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is committed, as per the Programme for Government, to increase the number of GPs through a combination of international recruitment and increased training places. Significant increases have been made in recent years to the number of new entrant training places available, which will in turn increase the number of doctors who graduate and practice as GPs across the country. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (29 Jul 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 Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Agreement was reached in the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) on the 10th of March 2025, between ICTU unions and relevant Government Departments, to fund Health and Social Care and Homeless sector employers for a 9.25% pay increase, equivalent to the Public Sector Agreement 2024-2026. It is important to note that voluntary and community organisations receive funding from a myriad of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2545 to 2547, inclusive, together. The safety and quality of our maternity services are of critical importance to the women and families who use them, as well as to this Government. The developments at the Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH) maternity unit may undoubtedly cause concern and worry for many women attending or planning to attend services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2548 and 2721 together. The Model of Care for Fertility was developed by the Department of Health in conjunction with the HSE’s National Women & Infants Health Programme to ensure that fertility-related issues are addressed through the public health system at the lowest level of clinical intervention necessary. This Model of Care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is an operational matter for the HSE, I have referred the question to the HSE for a direct reply.