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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to the Deputy and the House some very good news. Over the last few years, we have invested a lot of money in getting children the orthodontic care they need. The waiting lists have been too long. I am very happy to say that we have had a 44% reduction in the number of children waiting. This is fantastic, and I acknowledge the work of the HSE and our oral health community in achieving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...children seen. We invest a little over €200 million every year in public oral healthcare services. An additional €17 million in one-off funding has been invested in recent years. In the longer term, the national oral health policy sets out a complete transformation of oral healthcare services and the expansion of the care available for children and adults. I recognise...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the question. I acknowledge that the waiting lists for these children are simply too long and that while more capacity is being is being added and more surgeries are being done, there are a number of children for whom the wait is simply unacceptable. In 2022, I asked Children's Health Ireland to come up with a comprehensive plan that would mean that of the children...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: .... It does not have to comply with the treatment abroad scheme, which is an EU scheme. If we can find this treatment in the United States, Canada or wherever it may be, CHI has been told that as long as it is clinically appropriate for these children the State will fund it, we will fund their families going over and we will support the whole thing. I will respond to the Deputy's second...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...people freedoms being made from the perspective of a tradition that has deprived people, including women and gay men and women, of freedoms in our country and did so successfully for a very long time. There is also a dark irony to being lectured by individuals from that tradition on the need to respect people's freedoms. This is only the second time I have been described as a Nazi and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments. As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024 Waiting List Action Plan on 27th March. Total funding of €360 million has been provided for the plan this year which sets...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: A temporary 12-month Special Scheme of Paid Leave was introduced in July 2022 for certain eligible public health sector employees suffering from long-COVID. At my request, this Special Scheme was extended a number of times, most recently in October 2023 when it was extended to run until the end of March 2024. The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform it clear that this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...savings of approximately €424 million in 2024 (€554 million full year saving) are being targeted including medicines expenditure, non-pay costs, procurement costs, the cost of care in long term residential care for older people, and management consultancy costs. These savings are intended to reduce the extent of the financial risk facing the health sector in 2024. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in the coming weeks following final consultations with stakeholders. Funding recently announced through the Women’s Health Action plan will see Phase 1 of the Endometriosis Framework fully funded. The Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...through the Health Research Board, which to date has not funded research in this area. However, the vast majority of HRB schemes welcome applications from the research community in any area as long as they are aligned with the agency's broad remit to fund clinical research, population health research, health services and systems research. Within this remit, research concerned with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (25 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I recognise that hospital waiting lists are too long and that many patients including children, are waiting an unacceptably long time for care. I acknowledge the impact this has on patients and their families, and especially the impact on children. As the particular case raised by the Deputy relates to service issues, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (24 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...was undertaken by an independent assessor and the final report issued in January 2023. It was confirmed that medical laboratory scientists were performing the same duties as biochemists. This long-standing matter has now been resolved through the Labour Court, which examined all relevant issues including the review of the grades involved. The Labour Court determination was explicit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (24 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants. It set out to examine the challenges in frontline carer roles in the home support and long-term residential care sectors. The report was published on 15 October 2022: www.gov.ie/en/publication/492bc-report-of-the-strategic-work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It is acknowledged that many patients still must wait too long for hospital appointments and treatments. As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024 Waiting List Action Plan on 27th March. Total funding of €360 million has been provided for the plan this year which sets...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) works with public hospitals, as opposed to with patients directly, to offer and provide the funding for treatment to clinically suitable long waiting patients who are on an Inpatient/Day case or Outpatient waiting list. The key criteria of the NTPF is the prioritisation of the longest waiting patients first. While the NTPF identifies patients...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) works with public hospitals, as opposed to with patients directly, to offer and provide the funding for treatment to clinically suitable long waiting patients who are on an Inpatient/Day case or Outpatient waiting list. While the NTPF identifies patients eligible for NTPF treatment, it is solely on the basis of their time spent on a waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...reimbursement support to the approved indication. It is for this reason that reimbursement for Semaglutide (Ozempic®) is confined to those with eligibility under the General Medical Services Scheme (GMS) or the Long-Term Illness (LTI) scheme and is not made available on the Drugs Payment Scheme. In accordance with the provisions of the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It is accepted that many patients still must wait too long for hospital appointments and treatments. As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024 Waiting List Action Plan (WLAP) on 27th March. Total funding of €360 million has been provided for the WLAP this year which sets...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the amendments. An Garda Síochána has indicated it is not possible under the current configuration of the PULSE system to centrally record warnings. It must be remembered that the Garda has a long and proud record of enforcing the law as well as experience of managing public order events. The legislation as currently worded allows An Garda Síochána the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Equality Issues (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...was undertaken by an independent assessor and the final report issued in January 2023. It was confirmed that medical laboratory scientists were performing the same duties as biochemists. This long-standing matter has now been resolved through the Labour Court, which examined all relevant issues including the review of the grades involved. The Labour Court determination was explicit...