# department-of-health - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
Hospitals are now going to be divided into one of six groups around the country.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
The location of the facility, in Minister for Health’s James Reilly’s constituency, was met with controversy last year.
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# department-of-health - Friday 19 April, 2013
A report published last year concluded that those given the State sponsored swine flu vaccine Pandemrix were at a higher risk of narcolepsy than unvaccinated individuals.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 18 April, 2013
The recommended drugs are for ulcer disease and high cholesterol which account for 15 per cent of the drugs budget.
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# department-of-health - Friday 12 April, 2013
However the medicine, which would boost the quality of life of MS sufferers, can’t be made available until the government changes legislation.
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# department-of-health - Monday 1 April, 2013
James Reilly says it would be too expensive to light his Department’s HQ blue tomorrow to mark Autism Awareness Day.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 21 March, 2013
Earlier today, the 35 victims who were excluded from a previous redress scheme accused the Minister of reneging on promises.
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# department-of-health - Friday 1 March, 2013
The chairman of Regional Health Forum West said around 30 people are mentioned in the final report.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 27 February, 2013
Junior health minister Kathleen Lynch could provide no guarantees as to what will happen to the payments to those in receipt of the Mobility Allowance when it is axed in four months time.
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The government confirmed last night that it will axe the Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant because it would be too costly to widen the schemes to ensure compliance with equality laws.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Assistant Secretary General in the department, Bairbre Nic Aongusa, spoke of her insistence on making sure that Parliamentary Questions were answered.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 26 January, 2013
“Taxing defibrillators is like putting a tax on saving lives”: the 23 per cent VAT rate which Government says can’t be lifted because of an EU directive.
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# department-of-health - Monday 21 January, 2013
Irish health authorities will negotiate the price of a “groundbreaking” new treatment for cystic fibrosis, which would currently cost the State more than €28 million annually.
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# department-of-health - Friday 11 January, 2013
Unions representing health service workers will be briefed on the HSE’s national service plan announced yesterday as political reaction was less than positive towards the plan.
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# department-of-health - Friday 21 December, 2012
Sinn Féin said documents suggested James Reilly discussed the specific site earmarked for a Primary Care centre in Balbriggan during a meeting with NAMA.
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We should know by now that having unprotected sex is not safe, writes Anna Quigley – so why are we engaging in risky sexual behaviour?
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
More than €28 million will be made available to the task forces next year to support community based initiatives.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 8 December, 2012
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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In a report the department said this is a key requirement of the new implementation of the Croke Park Agreement.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 5 December, 2012
Documents obtained by Fianna Fáil show the government preparing to announce a list of 33 venues, not 35.
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# department-of-health - Saturday 1 December, 2012
This week, Health Minister James Reilly called on TDs to participate in the planned debates to try to reach a party consensus on legislation for the X case.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
The long-awaited report has now been published in full. Read it here.
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# department-of-health - Monday 26 November, 2012
The issue of abortion will dominate this week’s political agenda as the expert group report is expected to be published.
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# department-of-health - Friday 23 November, 2012
The Department of Health said the government still intends to bring the report to Cabinet on Tuesday.
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The Health Minister has met with the husband of the woman who died in controversial circumstances at Galway University Hospital last month at a hotel in Galway today.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 25 October, 2012
The Ombudsman found that the 66-year age limit on Mobililty Allowance Scheme for people with a severe disability has been illegal – and the department has known this for the past four years.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
The Department of Health say John Fitzgerald is not carrying out any review of locations.
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# department-of-health - Friday 19 October, 2012
Deputy Billy Kelleher sent a Freedom of Information request to the department of health, who said they regret the need to extend the time to deal with the request.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
Enda Kenny would not say if all the documentation related to the controversial selection of sites for primary care centres would be published during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil today.
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Fianna Fáil’s Seán Fleming walked out of a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee with HSE chiefs as Simon Harris later told people to ‘chillax’.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
“You’re a disgrace as a public official,” thundered Sean Fleming. “You are not fit for office as chairman of the HSE.”
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# department-of-health - Monday 8 October, 2012
The Public Accounts committee is going to question the heads of the HSE and the Department of Health about spending on drugs, overtime, and consultants.
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# department-of-health - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
The Health Minister gave a strong defence of his conduct in relation to the selection of sites for primary care centres, two of which are in his constituency.
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# department-of-health - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
Spending at the Departments of Health and Social Protection were more than expected, according to the latest figures from the Department of Finance.
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Three months before the risk equalisation scheme is due to come into effect, it remains unknown as to what impact it will have on private health insurance premiums.
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# department-of-health - Thursday 27 September, 2012
The Health Minister has commented on the news that Alex White will replace the departed Róisín Shortall who Reilly thanked for her ‘hard work’.
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The Dublin South TD will be nominated to fill the vacant junior ministerial position at the Department of Health next week.
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The letter was released last night and details Reilly’s explanation for expanding the lost of 20 sites for proposed primary care centres to 35, an issue which has in part led to Shortall’s resignation.
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# department-of-health - Monday 24 September, 2012
The transport minister tells The Week in Politics that James Reilly’s amendment of the list for primary care centres does look suspicious.
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# department-of-health - Monday 17 September, 2012
Talks between the Department, HSE, doctors and consultants were due to wrap up at midnight but continued until nearly 8am.
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