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• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Cabinet Committees

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-04-27/16/
  27 Apr 2022 - A public meeting in Cork on this issue was recently told by a primary school principal that 60 therapists...In recent days, the Minister for Health has intervened in a row between the Minister of State with responsibility

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-07/12/
  7 Oct 2021 - As public health restrictions ease, my Department is starting to ramp up its engagement with jobseekers

• Debate: Joint Committee On Gender Equality

  Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_gender_equality/2022-06-16/2/
  16 Jun 2022 - care a kind of modern manifestation of the State's reluctance to provide and deliver fully integrated public...health and social services that might have been developed elsewhere around Europe?

• Debate: Joint Sub-Committee On Mental Health

  Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_sub_committee_on_mental_health/2022-06-28/3/
  28 Jun 2022 - primary presentations were for eating disorders had been admitted to non-eating disorder inpatient public...acute mental health facilities.

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-06-22/15/
  22 Jun 2022 - We need to be much better at workforce planning in the public sector....Very shortly, the Minister for Health and I will jointly bring forward proposals with regard to workforce

• Debate: Joint Committee On Health

  Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2022-07-06/3/
  6 Jul 2022 - In some communities, both in the general public and the medical community, there is a belief that these...There should be an education campaign for employers, occupational health doctors and businesses to support

• Debate: Joint Committee On Health

  Integrated Eye Care: Discussion

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2022-07-13/3/
  13 Jul 2022 - between those patients who do not have a medical card and are not insured and need to be covered by the public...health system.

• Debate: Seanad Éireann

  Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-07-11/9/
  11 Jul 2022 - I am glad the Minister has taken on board that this is a public health issue in the same way as is the

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-12-09/40/
  9 Dec 2021 - national children's hospital and the national broadband plan to see the carnage that is inflicted on the public...cost overruns on the lowball tenders are a few million snatched away from neurology, housing, mental health...Too often these lowball tenders are not only a false economy but also an exploitation of the public good...money but no responsibilities to their workers whose taxes actually fund that public purse....For the sake of the public and our workers and the way it should be, I challenge the Minister of State

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Departmental Strategies

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-02-15/19/
  15 Feb 2022 - rebuilding sustainable enterprises; having a balanced and inclusive recovery; and ensuring sustainable public...transition across the economy and society, to maximise the well-being of our citizens, the efficiency of public...compass: digital transformation of business; digital infrastructure; skills; and digitalisation of public...ensure society can engage with and benefit from digitalisation; and driving further digitalisation of public...services, with a focus on the health system.

• Parliamentary Question

  666. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of free contraception for 17 to 25-year-olds; when it will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12939/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-03-08/666/#pq_666
  Tue, 8 Mar 2022 - Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the provision of free contraception

• Parliamentary Question

  152. Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Health if the €1,000 once-off payment will be available to public health nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3682/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-01-26/152/#pq_152
  Wed, 26 Jan 2022 - Deputy Michael Ring asked the Minister for Health if the €1,000 once-off payment will be available to...public health nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3682/22]

• Parliamentary Question

  512. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the projected full-year costs of the free contraception scheme for women aged 17 to 25 years in 2023; if funding is already in place for 2023; the estimated amount that it would cost to extend the scheme up to women aged 45 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38334/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-07-13/512/#pq_512
  Wed, 13 Jul 2022 - Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the projected full-year costs of the free contraception

• Parliamentary Question

  1152. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the recommended standard for CO2 monitors for use by the public; and the steps being taken to publicise this. [53386/21]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-11-02/1152/#pq_1152
  Tue, 2 Nov 2021 - Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the recommended standard for CO2 monitors for use...by the public; and the steps being taken to publicise this. [53386/21]

• Publication

  Opening Statement, Deputy Mary Butler, Minister of State, with responsibility for Mental Health and Older People, Department of Health

  https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/33/joint_sub_committee_on_mental_health/submissions/2021/2021-09-14_opening-statement-deputy-mary-butler-minister-of-state-with-responsibility-for-mental-health-and-older-people-department-of-health_en.pdf
  14 Sep 2021 - Opening Statement, Deputy Mary Butler, Minister of State, with responsibility for Mental Health and Older...People, Department of Health

• Parliamentary Question

  691. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding international recruitment into the health service regarding work permits; if his attention has been further drawn to issues regarding the recruitment of carers and healthcare assistants and disputes regarding constraints on critical skills employment permits; his plans to address the shortage of carers and healthcare assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58977/21]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-11-30/691/#pq_691
  Tue, 30 Nov 2021 - Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues regarding...international recruitment into the health service regarding work permits; if his attention has been

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Budget Statement 2022

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-12/4/
  12 Oct 2021 - The Government will try to make much of an extra €37 million for mental health....billion-plus that is actually required if we are to reach the WHO recommended level of 12% of our overall health...being invested to build a national health service that is free at the point of use, which is what we...We need free green and frequent public transport....Instead of improving our health services and supporting people with disabilities, the Government is striving

• Debate: Joint Committee On Health

  Update on Covid-19: Discussion

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2021-09-15/3/
  15 Sep 2021 - Our public health doctors tell us it is usually close contact....It is very important that in the public health messaging we get the balance right.

• Debate: Seanad Éireann

  Covid-19 and the New Measures (Education): Statements

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-12-02/14/
  2 Dec 2021 - We should restore public health contact-tracing teams for schools....Bringing back public health contact-tracing teams in schools will ensure that we can move out of this

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-12-01/9/
  1 Dec 2021 - The Taoiseach I accept what the Deputy has said in that this is a public health measure which he welcomes...It is a public health measure.

• Debate: Seanad Éireann

  An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-01-20/10/
  20 Jan 2022 - Bill on regulating gambling advertising and regulating this industry that has become a very serious public...health problem in this country once and for all....I look forward to the report's publication and its discussion in the House....The mental health of our young people is a subject that is thrown around too often, but this is a real

• Debate: Joint Committee On Transport And Communications

  Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_transport_and_communications/2021-12-08/2/
  8 Dec 2021 - The purpose of this meeting is to engage with officials from the Departments of Transport, Health, Foreign...O'Flaherty, principal officer in the aviation safety and security division; from the Department of Health...We regard this meeting as being about giving information to the general public, especially people who...must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House campus in order to participate in public

• Debate: Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

  General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_children_equality_disability_integration_and_youth/2022-02-16/2/
  16 Feb 2022 - There was no public process organised by the Department to engage with disabled organisations in the...Farrelly stated, "The Mental Health Commission's remit was extended by the Assisted Decision Making (...that access to the supports available under the 2015 Act cannot be withheld from persons in the mental health...provides for the incremental doubling of the percentage of people with disabilities employed in the public

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Work Permits

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-02-10/14/
  10 Feb 2022 - review will, as I said, open in the next couple of weeks and submissions will be invited through a public...In this case, the relevant Department is the Department of Health....This includes assessing proposals received through the public consultation for changes to the occupations...part-time workers but it is something we need to tease out much more with the sector and the Departments of Health

• Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine

  Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013: Post-Enactment Scrutiny (Resumed)

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2022-02-23/2/
  23 Feb 2022 - Chairman I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones...insemination, canine fertility clinics and ear cropping in relation to post-enactment scrutiny of the Animal Health...Privilege against defamation does not apply to the publication by witnesses outside the proceedings held..., canine fertility clinics and ear cropping in the context of post-enactment scrutiny of the Animal Health

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Disability Services

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-05-18/5/
  18 May 2022 - Minister of State at the Department of Health (Deputy Anne Rabbitte) I thank the Deputy for raising...not just used for young people who are listed as having disabilities; it is also open to the wider public...In terms of the overall health budget, in particular that part relating to disability, given the value...If there are other hydrotherapy pools and facilities used by the HSE, I ask the wider public to make

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  National Maternity Hospital

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-03-03/36/
  3 Mar 2022 - That was the KPMG report, which was accepted by the then Minister for Health, James Reilly....radio programme to discuss the letter he and his colleagues wrote to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health...It will cost more than €1 billion of public money to build and more than €70 million of public money

• Debate: Seanad Éireann

  An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-11-23/10/
  23 Nov 2021 - It is appropriate that it would be extended because it is a very effective way of protecting public health...Such a measure will absolutely help to prevent the spread of Covid and it will be a very important public...health measure.

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-12-08/9/
  8 Dec 2021 - Members debated yet another extension of the draconian powers that have been handed to the Minister for Health...While Members were in the Chamber, the Taoiseach took to the airwaves to talk to the public and went...over the heads of some members of the public to talk to the children....For more than 20 months now, the Minister for Health could sign into law whatever he chose, which has

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-12-14/20/
  14 Dec 2021 - contained in the Appropriation Bill 2021 in isolation, it really does tell us what areas are prioritised in public...I understand the current challenges to public spending which have presented themselves over the past...21 months or so and I understand our public spending had to be increased for a variety of reasons....However, it is very hard to deny that our public spending is like a runaway train....The level of public spending we currently have is unsustainable and almost out of control.

• Debate: Joint Committee On Health

  Home Care: Discussion

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2022-02-09/2/
  9 Feb 2022 - SIPTU's health division represents 40,000 workers across private and public health organisations....SIPTU has significant membership across the community home care health sector....Services are delivered through one-off direct HSE public services, voluntary not-for-profit services,...In many cases, pay was linked to the public services until 2008....The improved conditions of employment vis-à-vis public versus private facilities should ensure the HSE

• Parliamentary Question

  663. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Health if urgent assistance and treatment can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9047/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-02-22/663/#pq_663
  Tue, 22 Feb 2022 - Durkan asked the Minister for Health if urgent assistance and treatment can be facilitated in the case

• Parliamentary Question

  840. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 1 March 2022, the way in which mental health psychologists in County Cork were informed of opportunities to transfer into posts outside of the nationally agreed recruitment process for the years 2014, 2016 and 2017, given that personal development planning meetings were not scheduled by HSE management for those years; if written records exist to show that these opportunities to transfer into posts were conveyed equally to mental health psychologists in County Cork in years in which such personal development planning meetings were scheduled; the reason it is, as per the response supplied, it was not possible for the HSE to comment on individual cases in which a reassignment of a staff member has been facilitated given that such reassignments are public appointments to posts that would have been open to competition among eligible candidates had the opportunities of being advertised to the nationally agreed recruitment panel process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18122/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-04-05/840/#pq_840
  Tue, 5 Apr 2022 - Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 1 March...2022, the way in which mental health psychologists in County Cork were informed of opportunities to...records exist to show that these opportunities to transfer into posts were conveyed equally to mental health...cases in which a reassignment of a staff member has been facilitated given that such reassignments are public

• Parliamentary Question

  386. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health the conditions that have been imposed on section 39 organisations delivering community care before restoration of FEMPI pay cuts can be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17175/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-03-31/386/#pq_386
  Thu, 31 Mar 2022 - Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health the conditions that have been imposed on section

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Workplace Ventilation (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-12-01/8/
  1 Dec 2021 - Certainly, in schools and in public buildings, the State should pay....on the health service....That has had an impact in terms of the public health messaging....That is a real failure and the public health messaging must change....The National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, expert group on ventilation stated in March that HEPA

• Parliamentary Question

  168. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health when the pandemic special recognition payment €1,000 per person will be made to non-HSE frontline healthcare workers; when staff in private nursing homes will receive the payment; the reason for the delay; the number of payments of €1,000 made to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32830/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-06-22/168/#pq_168
  Wed, 22 Jun 2022 - Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health when the pandemic special recognition payment

• Parliamentary Question

  278. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health if e-tenders for the supply of (details supplied) will be issued following the suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic; if so, the expected timeframe for the reopening of the e-tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51617/21]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-10-20/278/#pq_278
  Wed, 20 Oct 2021 - Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health if e-tenders for the supply of (details supplied

• Parliamentary Question

  820. Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health when training and accreditation for medical practitioners to fit and remove long-acting reversible contraception will recommence in view of the stated intention to commence the roll-out of free contraception for 17 to 25 year olds in August 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13953/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-03-22/820/#pq_820
  Tue, 22 Mar 2022 - Deputy Verona Murphy asked the Minister for Health when training and accreditation for medical practitioners

• Parliamentary Question

  603. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will consider lowering the age for bowel cancer screening to 30 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3182/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-01-25/603/#pq_603
  Tue, 25 Jan 2022 - Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health if he will consider lowering the age for bowel cancer

• Publication

  Opening statement, Claire Gordon, Department of Health

  https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/33/joint_committee_on_health/submissions/2021/2021-11-03_opening-statement-claire-gordon-department-of-health_en.pdf
  3 Nov 2021 - Opening statement, Claire Gordon, Department of Health

• Parliamentary Question

  657. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health his plans to restore the 30% pay cut that was imposed on consultant psychiatrics in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12915/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-03-08/657/#pq_657
  Tue, 8 Mar 2022 - Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health his plans to restore the 30% pay cut that was imposed

• Parliamentary Question

  474. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if he will waive the €100 registration fee for nurses in view of the work they are carrying out during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59834/21]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-12-07/474/#pq_474
  Tue, 7 Dec 2021 - Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Health if he will waive the €100 registration fee for nurses

• Parliamentary Question

  799. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health the details of National Treatment Purchase Fund funding that was allocated in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 which has yet to be drawn down in respect of procedures to reduce the endoscopy waiting list at University Hospital Kerry; the dates of the allocations, the amount of funding involved and the number of procedures this funding would be expected to cover; if follow-up in respect of any failure to draw down the funding took place; if a reason for the failure to drawdown same has been provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9619/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-02-22/799/#pq_799
  Tue, 22 Feb 2022 - Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health the details of National Treatment Purchase Fund

• Parliamentary Question

  234. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March, 840 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 2022, the way that fairness and transparency could be attributed to a process of expressions of interest in appointments by transfer of mental health psychologists in CHO4 which were not made known to all candidates through annual personal development plan meetings or by any other formal means and where these opportunities were therefore made known and offered to some psychologists but not others who were equally eligible; his views on the fact that these public appointments took place in a manner that was not covered by HR policy and circumvented relevant national recruitment panels and therefore imposed disadvantage on candidates ranked on those recruitment panels who would have expressed an interest in the posts in question. [33189/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-06-22/234/#pq_234
  Wed, 22 Jun 2022 - Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March...transparency could be attributed to a process of expressions of interest in appointments by transfer of mental health...offered to some psychologists but not others who were equally eligible; his views on the fact that these public

• Debate: Seanad Éireann

  Covid-19: Statements

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-04-06/7/
  6 Apr 2022 - Minister for Health (Deputy Stephen Donnelly) I thank colleagues for their contributions....will rightly be proud of, while obviously being cognisant of the horrific toll it has taken on life, health...health and what we can learn from that....People on public transport should be wearing masks....My view and that of the Government and, indeed, the advice of public health is that we do not.

• Legislation

  Health Act 2004 (No. 42 of 2004)

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2004/47/
  17 Dec 2004 - Health Bill 2004

• Parliamentary Question

  8. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the status of the situation regarding medical scientists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26798/22]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-05-26/8/#pq_8
  Thu, 26 May 2022 - Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the status of the situation regarding medical scientists

• Debate: Seanad Éireann

  An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-10-20/9/
  20 Oct 2021 - Senator Shane Cassells I welcome the intervention by the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, yesterday...these proposals, no more so than the fact that the North-East Doctor on Call, NEDOC, had to issue a public...I look forward to the HSE listening to the community and dealing with public representatives.

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  Covid-19 Pandemic

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-12-03/24/
  3 Dec 2021 - months and as the Deputy has said, we have recent advice from HIQA that has been endorsed by National Public...Health Emergency Team, NPHET, that the presumptive period is nine months....The Irish Government has successfully delivered the EU digital Covid-19 certificate to the Irish public

• Debate: Dáil Éireann

  National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members]

  https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-16/21/
  16 Nov 2021 - Deputy Seán Crowe People in Ireland are tired of the dire state of the public services that they rely...Nowhere can this be seen more than in our health service....We cannot neglect public services in this country any longer.