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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Addiction Treatment Services (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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 Justice and Equality: Obesity Strategy (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 782 and 783 together. A Healthy Weight for Ireland’, the Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland agenda. The OPAP covers a 10-year period up to 2025 and aims to reverse obesity trends, prevent health complications and reduce the overall burden for individuals, families, the health...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Obesity Strategy (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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 Justice and Equality: Childhood Obesity (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Healthy Communities initiative is intended to support health and wellbeing in areas of deprivation through targeted investments in health and wellbeing interventions in areas of greatest need. It will involve a partnership approach with a broad range of stakeholders, including government departments, the Health Service Executive, local government, local Community Development...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: HIV Incidence (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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 Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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 Justice and Equality: HIV-AIDS Programmes (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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 Justice and Equality: National Drugs Strategy (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: The national drug strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, sets out government policy on drug and alcohol use until 2025. The strategy aims to provide an integrated public health approach to drug and alcohol use, focused on reducing the harms for individuals, families and communities and promoting rehabilitation and recovery. The strategy is a dynamic strategy, monitored through the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (27 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces play a key role in relation to the implementation of the national drugs strategy, ' Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery'. Action 6.1.50 of the strategy commits to ensuring that Task Forces have proper arrangements in place for the selection and renewal of the Chair, Members of Task Forces and for having proper procedures in place for addressing conflicts of...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: I agree with many Deputies here today about the criteria. We have had much discussion about carers and front-line staff. Under the national immunisation advisory committee, NIAC, and NPHET, this is a living document. It can be revised. Every Deputy has been approached by many people to ask where they stand. The Department has been in ongoing dialogue with the HSE about the additional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (21 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: ‘A Healthy Weight for Ireland’, the Government’s Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland agenda. It covers a ten year period up to 2025 and aims to reverse obesity trends, prevent health complications and reduce the overall burden for individuals, families, the health system, and the wider society...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 534 and 535 together. Get Ireland Active! – the National Physical Activity Plan for Irelandwas launched on 14 January, 2016. The key target identified in the Plan is to increase the number of people taking regular exercise by 1% per annum over the lifetime of the Plan, to be achieved by making physical activity a normal part of everyday life and giving...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: An Implementation Group was established in 2016 to progress the recommendations of the National Physical Activity Plan. It is co-chaired by the Departments of Health and Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. It includes representatives from the Departments of Education, Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and Rural and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: Drafting of the annual Summary Progress Report of the National Physical Activity Plan (NPAP) requires the collation of annual progress made on all 60 actions of the Report and consequently requires input from the wide array of stakeholders and partners represented on the NPAP Implementation Group. These include the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: Research, evaluation and monitoring are key elements of Healthy Ireland implementation. The National Physical Activity Plan Implementation Group (NPAP IG) has a Research Sub-Group that has been involved in oversight of NPAP related research, including compilation of Irish data for the WHO 2018 Country FactSheets on Physical Activity and the WHO Health Enhancing Physical Activity Policy Action...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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: Disability Support Services (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: 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: Addiction Treatment Services (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 636 and 637 together. The Health Service Executive has responsibility for the provision of addiction treatment services. People who present to the HSE for addiction treatment for gambling are offered the same range of interventions as those who present with a drug and alcohol addiction, or a mental health concern, including an initial assessment, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Authority of Ireland (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 653 and 654 together. The Department of Health requested the Scientific Committee of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) “to fast track the current work on Vitamin D and older people to provide an evidence -base to the Department of Health to underpin public health policy for vitamin D supplementation in older people, 65 plus years” by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Safety Standards (20 Jan 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Tax commenced in May 2018. As part of the preparation for the introduction of the tax, a Department of Health Working Paper from October 2016 outlined the Health Rationale, Options and Recommendations in relation to the proposed tax. This Working Paper found that a strong medical consensus supported the association between obesity and the consumption of sugar and...