# simon-harris - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
# simon-harris - Tuesday 10 December, 2019
Opposition members are understood to be considering tabling a motion of no confidence against the health minister in the new year.
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# simon-harris - Monday 9 December, 2019
Some vaping packaging is trying to make it attractive to children, according to the health minister.
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Questions still hang over who will carry out the review into Murphy’s expense claims.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 4 December, 2019
St James’s Hospital has been advertising prizes for wards that discharge patients before 11am.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 3 December, 2019
This Bill would make it mandatory for the health service provider to put forward information on incidents of patient safety.
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# simon-harris - Monday 2 December, 2019
It is hoped it will only be a matter of weeks before patients can use the products.
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# simon-harris - Sunday 1 December, 2019
Today, 1 December, marks World AIDS Day 2019.
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# simon-harris - Monday 25 November, 2019
Minister for Health Simon Harris met with Facebook, Google and Twitter today.
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# simon-harris - Saturday 23 November, 2019
Healthcare providers will have a duty to disclose serious patient safety incidents and failure to comply could result in a fine or imprisonment.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 19 November, 2019
More than 1,000 cases of vaping-related lung illnesses have been reported in the US, with 42 confirmed deaths in 24 states.
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# simon-harris - Monday 18 November, 2019
The Minister for Health says that the government must and will shoulder its responsibilities in this area.
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# simon-harris - Thursday 14 November, 2019
There has been a steady decline in the number of medicines seized in the last three years.
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Measures to restrict alcohol advertisements around children came into effect this week.
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# simon-harris - Monday 11 November, 2019
From Wednesday, there will be a ban on alcohol advertising within 200 metres of a school.
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# simon-harris - Saturday 9 November, 2019
Dr Peter Boylan made the claim in a new book to be published next week.
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# simon-harris - Friday 8 November, 2019
The Health Minister has said he has no intention of meeting with vaping companies.
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# simon-harris - Monday 4 November, 2019
Law will allow same sex parents register both their names on their child’s birth cert from May 5th 2020.
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Alcohol ads will be banned near schools, creches and playgrounds from next week.
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# simon-harris - Thursday 31 October, 2019
A large number of the party’s members took the secret ballot in a Dun Laoghaire hotel this evening.
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# simon-harris - Monday 21 October, 2019
The protest was held this afternoon outside the Department of Health building in Dublin.
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# simon-harris - Thursday 17 October, 2019
Department of Health says rollout of €1 million fund announced last year ‘under consideration’.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 16 October, 2019
The Sarcoma Action & Support Group has called for Health Minister Simon Harris to intervene.
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The plans will be debated at the Oireachtas Health Committee today.
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# simon-harris - Monday 7 October, 2019
The health minister said women are facing significant costs paying for sanitary products.
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# simon-harris - Thursday 3 October, 2019
The Irish Pharmaceutical Union and the health minister said no medicine shortages have been identified.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
The minister said tobacco companies are ‘despicable’ for targeting children with e-cigarettes.
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Last month, Limerick had over 1,400 patients without beds.
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# simon-harris - Thursday 26 September, 2019
In July, Minister Simon Harris said exclusion zones outside hospitals and GP surgeries will be a “major priority”.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 25 September, 2019
The latest HSE figures from July show that 7,300 people are waiting on home support services.
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# simon-harris - Friday 20 September, 2019
Calorie counters on menus caused a 37% drop in calories consumed, according to an ESRI study.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 18 September, 2019
An ERSI report says that a 10% increase in the supply of home would increase hospital bed availability dramatically.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 10 September, 2019
The project has been mired in controversy over spiralling costs.
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Facebook says certain hashtags are banned and ads rejected in a bid to stop misinformation from gaining traction.
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# simon-harris - Monday 9 September, 2019
The health minister sent letters to companies like Facebook and Google in recent weeks.
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# simon-harris - Monday 2 September, 2019
Leo Varadkar insisted some politicians had been “scaremongering” over the children’s hospital overspend.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 28 August, 2019
Harris has said free dental care for children will begin to be rolled out from next year
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A new remuneration policy will be announced next month.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
Harris is considering advice from the Attorney General on mandatory vaccination.
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First-year students will be able to get the HPV vaccine this September.
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