# minister-for-health - Tuesday 2 November, 2021
# Healthcare Workers
# Healthcare Workers
It is expected that the rollout of booster jabs to healthcare workers could be completed in a number of weeks.
# minister-for-health - Wednesday 23 June, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
The former Master of the National Maternity Hospital says the Catholic ethos will never meet with that of the State and it’s time to move on.
# minister-for-health - Friday 23 April, 2021
# Stephen Donnelly
# Stephen Donnelly
Stephen Donnelly said that the National Ambulance Service capacity would be doubled as part of this.
# minister-for-health - Wednesday 21 April, 2021
# Women's Healthcare
# Women's Healthcare
These two health policies are recommendations from the Women’s Health Taskforce, established by the Department of Health in September 2019.
# minister-for-health - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Mhq
# Mhq
The Minister for Health made the announcement this evening.
# minister-for-health - Thursday 25 February, 2021
# Prioritisation
# Prioritisation
Donnelly is particularly concerned about the situation for carers of children who are high risk.
# minister-for-health - Wednesday 10 February, 2021
# Stephen Donnelly
# Stephen Donnelly
Dr Lorraine Doherty wrote on 21 December that the Covid-19 situation was “deteriorating”.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 2 February, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Stephen Donnelly said that 1.1 million doses of Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines are to be delivered by the end of March.
# minister-for-health - Saturday 8 August, 2020
# Minister For Health
# Minister For Health
New restrictions on people in the counties Kildare, Laois and Offaly came into effect from today, and will remain in place for two weeks.
# minister-for-health - Thursday 6 August, 2020
# Warning
# Warning
It was reported today that a Department of Health briefing warns of a major backlog in cancer treatments.
# minister-for-health - Friday 31 July, 2020
# Stephen Donnelly
# Stephen Donnelly
The tribunal was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
# minister-for-health - Thursday 2 July, 2020
# Green List
# Green List
Air bridges with other countries will be discussed by the Cabinet next Monday.
# minister-for-health - Thursday 11 June, 2020
# Covid19
# Covid19
Harris told the Dáil that the R number is now between 0.4 and 0.8.
# minister-for-health - Monday 18 May, 2020
# Influenza
# Influenza
The vaccine will also be free for people in at-risk groups and those aged 70 and over.
# Roadmap
# Roadmap
Small weddings are due to be permitted by 20 July, according to the government roadmap out of lockdown.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 12 May, 2020
# Regulation
# Regulation
The minister said he would like this requirement backed up by the law.
# minister-for-health - Wednesday 1 April, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Simon Harris has said a lot of the new measures are “already underway” in nursing homes.
# minister-for-health - Monday 30 March, 2020
# Nursing Homes Ireland
# Nursing Homes Ireland
Minister Simon Harris met with representatives of nursing homes today to discuss their role in the Covid-19 crisis.
# minister-for-health - Monday 23 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
It is expected that further recommendations will be made by public health officials tomorrow.
# minister-for-health - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The Department of Health will review its advice in relation to mass gatherings today.
# minister-for-health - Thursday 9 January, 2020
# Election 2020
# Election 2020
The Minister for Health responded to the no-confidence threat with: “I don’t have any confidence in Michael Collins, we don’t agree on much.”
# minister-for-health - Sunday 5 January, 2020
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Six and seven-year-olds would receive free care from this year under proposed legislation.
# minister-for-health - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
# St James's Hospital
# St James's Hospital
St James’s Hospital has been advertising prizes for wards that discharge patients before 11am.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 3 December, 2019
# Patient Safety Bill
# Patient Safety Bill
This Bill would make it mandatory for the health service provider to put forward information on incidents of patient safety.
# minister-for-health - Monday 25 November, 2019
# Simon Harris
# Simon Harris
Minister for Health Simon Harris met with Facebook, Google and Twitter today.
# minister-for-health - Monday 21 October, 2019
# Equality
# Equality
The protest was held this afternoon outside the Department of Health building in Dublin.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 7 May, 2019
# Cannabis
# Cannabis
This will make it significantly less of a grey area in Irish law – and it could also herald the start of the Irish cannabis industry.
# minister-for-health - Friday 26 April, 2019
# Measles
# Measles
Earlier this week, it was announced that Ireland had experienced a 204% increase in cases of measles.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 23 April, 2019
# Draft Report
# Draft Report
A draft report on the introduction of the programme was published today.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
Since 2012 there has been a 66% increase in the number of people with no private or public health cover, writes Feilim O’Rourke.
# minister-for-health - Monday 4 March, 2019
# Non-hazardous
# Non-hazardous
Technicians from the Defence Forces have confirmed that the powder was non-hazardous
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
Fianna Fáil TDs have reportedly been urged by the party whip to attend the vote tomorrow evening.
# minister-for-health - Saturday 16 February, 2019
# Onwards And Upwards
# Onwards And Upwards
The Minister was responding to a statement by BAM that suggested it would pull out of the contract if the Government wanted.
# minister-for-health - Saturday 9 February, 2019
# Explainer
# Explainer
The controversy over the costs of the project is just the latest in a series of problems to affect the project
# minister-for-health - Thursday 6 December, 2018
# Co Kerry
# Co Kerry
Thousands of scans affecting 26,000 patients were reviewed – of those, 11 people’s cancer diagnoses were delayed, it was found.
# Winter Plan
# Winter Plan
The executive published its €30m Winter Plan for 2018/19 today.
# minister-for-health - Friday 16 November, 2018
# Daycase Access Plan
# Daycase Access Plan
The number of patients waiting more than 9 months for treatment has reduced by 38%.
# minister-for-health - Wednesday 26 September, 2018
# THE PAC
# THE PAC
Questions surrounding the payment were raised at the Public Accounts Committee yesterday.
# minister-for-health - Tuesday 18 September, 2018
# Cervical Cancer
# Cervical Cancer
The HSE launched a vaccine information campaign today, confirming two in three women are now being inoculated against the HPV virus.
# Ciarán Devane
# Ciarán Devane
The new board of the HSE will be accountable to the minister, the department of health said.