Results 141-160 of 12,409 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Really good staff. The other thing is I understand the window refurbishment is nearly complete so we will get those beds back as well which I know they have needed because they have been under pressure in a way they have not been before now.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am aware of this transport issue right across the board. I have to say a couple of things. The HSE is not a land development agency nor is it a transport company, it is a health company, but I am also aware that the HSE is funding and supporting many different rural transport programmes, for example, the Sligo cancer bus or the services for Cancer Care West which are a combination of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: At the end of the day, if you are looking for an appointment in the Mater and you have to be there for a particular reason, we are trying to maximise services. What there needs to be - and I have spoken to the Minister, Dara Calleary and the Minister of State, Jerry Buttimer about this - is a better understanding of the rural transport needs, both for health and disability, because there are...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have asked the Minister, Deputy Calleary, and the Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, who sits between rural and transport, to try to look at this separately. However, it is not a commitment that I can make to the Deputy-----
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: -----because my responsibility is to make sure that Mullingar is working well and the Mater is working well but I understand it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My responsibility is to make sure they offer the appointments.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Apologies, Chair.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I compliment the management and staff of Portlaoise. This year, there have only been 15 days on which the red-trolley threshold of ten trolleys has been breached. It has done extraordinarily well, and it is an example to every other model 3 hospital in the country.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (19 Nov 2025) Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Of course.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Officials in my Department are currently liaising with the Health Service Executive (HSE) and other stakeholders as part of an evidence-based process to determine whether it is appropriate to re-introduce the use of uro-gynaecological (transvaginal) mesh. I acknowledge the impact the pause on the use of uro-gynaecological mesh can have women who wish to avail of this surgery. This is an...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Nov 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 Services (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Further to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1,088 of 12 November 2025, in relation to the number of procedures completed from 2023 to date this year, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. With regard to the information about waiting time to treatment and removal requested by the Deputy, I wish...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to reply to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to reply to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 346 and 348 together. The HSE committed in the 2025 National Service Plan to undertake an independent assessment of the Physician Assistant role. The HSE commissioned an assessment of the Physician Assistant role with the aim of making recommendations regarding the governance of the role, scope of practice, and appropriate and safe deployment in Ireland....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Nov 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (19 Nov 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.