Results 141-160 of 11,434 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health 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: Budget 2026 (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the matter raised is a service delivery matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible. In the previous years budget (2025), €500,000 was provided to the HSE to develop the lung fibrosis clinical environment and services. As such, the HSE is best placed to provide an update on the matter. Please note that the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have asked the HSE, as Sponsoring Agency with day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of the new elective treatment centres to respond to you directly in relation to the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ireland’s Digital for Care Strategic Framework (2024–2030), published in 2024, sets out a clear roadmap for the digitisation of the Irish health and the need to deliver critical, patient-centred digital solutions. Informed by international experience and extensive stakeholder engagement in Ireland, the framework is supported by six principles to guide investment and provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Over the last 3 years, there has been a significant focus on improving access to, and the affordability of, healthcare services. Significant progress has been made in expanding eligibility and reducing the cost to patients. A range of affordability measures have been introduced such as a reduction in the monthly deductible for prescribed medicines, removal of public inpatient charges, a free...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I can confirm that as part of its day-to-day operations the National Ambulance Service liaises regularly with colleagues in other Primary Response Agencies (PRAs) including, as appropriate, on matters pertaining to gaining access to inaccessible properties to treat patients. Where buildings are gated and where access information is notified to NAS, the National Emergency Operations Centre...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health 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: Departmental Reports (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The information requested by the Deputy is not immediately available. My Department is currently collating the information requested and a reply will issue directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Community Pharmacy Agreement 2025 does not remove phased dispensing. Phased dispensing was introduced in 1996 for patient safety reasons. The supply of medication in instalments can support patients prescribed certain high-risk medications who are at risk of medication misadventure if these medications were to be supplied on a monthly basis, as is the norm under the community drug...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (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: Health Services (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Northern Ireland Planned Healthcare Scheme (NIPHS) has been in effective operation since 1 January 2021. This Scheme was introduced to mitigate the loss of access to care from private providers in Northern Ireland under the EU Cross Border Directive, which ceased to apply as a result of Brexit. The current administrative scheme enables persons ordinarily resident in the State to access...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (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: 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: Health 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: Health 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: Health Service Executive (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE have been asked to reply to the Deputy directly on the matter

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On 24 June 2025, I brought a Memorandum to Government seeking approval to recommence drafting of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill 2025. Approval was granted. Legislative priority had previously been given to the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 which was commenced in September 2024 (other than Section 68). The Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill is part of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The area of aesthetics and cosmetics is diverse in terms of the types of products and procedures that fall under its scope, with a wide range of levels of invasiveness and associated risks. Cosmetics, which range from non-invasive topical applications to non-surgical aesthetic procedures to surgical interventions, are currently regulated through a combination of: 1) professional regulation,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (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: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My Department is currently working with the Dental Council with a view to reforming the current Register for Dentists. In order to support this, a workforce skills assessment census framework for the oral healthcare sector has been designed. The workforce census is intended to gather information including the number of registered oral healthcare professionals who are practicing in their...