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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I want to begin by acknowledging the great work done by staff in Children's Health Ireland, CHI. However, in the past month details of an unpublished report conducted on the clinical department of CHI at Crumlin hospital has been put into the public domain. One of the revelations in the report was a finding of several inappropriate and unnecessary NTPF-funded Saturday clinics conducted by a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is an excellent question. It is exactly what I have asked Bernard Gloster to do. Of course, I have to wait for the report to be able to express my confidence in the quality of the work that has come back. The Deputy may take that as a reference example. As I said my opening reply, if there was underutilised capacity, that is, as the report states, other people in the hospital could...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister. There has been a significant increase in Saturday clinics over the past years. An example of this concerns scopes. More than 10% of scopes are now done on a Saturday but the distribution is very uneven across hospitals. Of the scopes carried out in Cavan hospital, one third are now done on a Saturday, that is 900 out of a total of 2,700. However, hospitals are still...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy raised the issue I am concerned about, namely that there are incentives to be under productive during the working week with a view to, or which have the outcome of, very busy clinics on Saturdays or bank holiday Mondays. That is exactly the sort of incentive I need to see stop. I cannot speak to the relative activity because I do not have that data. The Deputy's example is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)
Cancer Services
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the failure of a number of symptomatic breast disease clinics to see newly referred patients within ten working days (details supplied); the steps being taken to ensure that these clinics meet their targets; if the required resources will be allocated to these clinics to ensure there is adequate staffing; to provide an...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Access to symptomatic breast disease clinics has become a postcode lottery. Following an urgent GP referral, a person should be seen by a clinic within two weeks. However, timely access to these clinics varies widely. Last year, only four out of nine hospitals met the target of seeing 95% of urgent referrals within two weeks. The other five failed. The Mater Hospital only reached 29%,...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: There are nine HSE rapid access symptomatic breast disease clinics nationally, as the Deputy knows. The HSE has set a target of 95% of urgent referrals being seen within ten working days. Non-urgent referrals should be seen within 12 weeks. The HSE national cancer control programme monitors the performance of these clinics. Last year, national compliance with targets was 76% for urgent...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)
Pádraig Rice: One report states that one in four people waited longer than recommended for an appointment at these urgent clinics. I would like to share with the Minister the experiences of two women from north Dublin. They had to wait for in excess of the two-week period to be seen by the matters symptomatic breast clinic. In February, one woman was referred by GP due to the presence of two lumps in...
- Prelude (26 Jun 2025)
- Prelude (26 Jun 2025)
Chuaigh an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach (Deputy David Maxwell) i gceannas ar 8.47
- Prelude (26 Jun 2025)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (26 Jun 2025)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (26 Jun 2025)
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Darren O'Rourke on 19 June 2025: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)
Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell)
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)
Verona Murphy: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022, taken on Thursday, 19 June 2025. On the question, "That the amendment to the motion be made", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 85(2), that division must be taken now.
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 85; Níl, 67; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)
Tá William Aird, Catherine Ardagh, Grace Boland, Tom Brabazon, Shay Brennan, Colm Brophy, James Browne, Colm Burke, Mary Butler, Paula Butterly, Jerry Buttimer, Malcolm Byrne, Michael Cahill, Catherine Callaghan, Dara Calleary, Seán Canney, Micheál Carrigy, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Peter Cleere, John Clendennen, Niall Collins, John Connolly, Joe Cooney, Cathal Crowe, John...