# health-committee - Wednesday 26 January, 2022
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
There are currently an average of 0.69 GPs per 1,000 population, when it should be between 1.02 and 1.1.
# health-committee - Wednesday 8 December, 2021
# Healthcare
An independent chair to lead a review into abortion laws has not yet been named. The terms of reference for the review have been criticised for being too narrow. The minister said today there has been a "significant reduction" in people travelling to the UK for terminations.
# health-committee - Wednesday 21 July, 2021
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
Over 34,000 calls were made to the new Digital Covid Certificate helpline yesterday alone.
# health-committee - Wednesday 14 July, 2021
# Maternity Restrictions
# Maternity Restrictions
“There has been a real issue there, it is arguably the most important time,” Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said.
# health-committee - Tuesday 2 March, 2021
# Health Minister
# Health Minister
Stephen Donnelly is appearing before the Oireachtas Health Committee to answer questions from TDs.
# health-committee - Tuesday 17 December, 2019
# CervicalCheck
# CervicalCheck
Walsh stepped away from her role at the CervicalCheck patient steering committee in October.
# health-committee - Thursday 16 May, 2019
# Dental Health
# Dental Health
Concerns were also raised about the overuse of antibiotics on children waiting for dental treatment .
# health-committee - Tuesday 29 January, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
Minister for Health Simon Harris appeared before the Health Committee this afternoon.
# health-committee - Wednesday 16 January, 2019
# Catastrophic Overspend
# Catastrophic Overspend
The final project cost is €1.4 billion – €450 million higher than the 2017 figure.
# health-committee - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
The Health Minister also said he wants the Bill to be inclusive of members of the trans community.
# health-committee - Saturday 3 November, 2018
# Abortion Legislation
# Abortion Legislation
A number of TDs have put down amendments ahead of the three-day discussion of the proposed abortion legislation next week.
# health-committee - Friday 2 November, 2018
# Abortion Legislation
# Abortion Legislation
A number of TDs have put down amendments ahead of the three-day discussion of the proposed abortion legislation next week.
# health-committee - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
# Cancer Screening
# Cancer Screening
Dr Gabriel Scally told an Oireachtas Committee that an initial review to identify women involved was flawed.
# health-committee - Wednesday 19 September, 2018
# Terminations
# Terminations
Dr Peter Boylan told an Oireachtas Committee that there is ‘no evidence’ for the wait time.
# health-committee - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
# Communication Breakdown
# Communication Breakdown
John Connaghan said women in Ireland had been “understandably frightened and concerned” by what they had read and heard.
# health-committee - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
# Public Safety
# Public Safety
Health committee member Kate O’Connell said that an opportunity was lost to make cannabis a medical product.
# health-committee - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
# Homelessness
# Homelessness
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health was told today there is an urgent need for the link between ill health and homelessness to be recognised.
# health-committee - Thursday 26 January, 2017
# Recommendation
# Recommendation
The Oireachtas Health Committee has made several recommendations in its report on medicinal cannabis.
# health-committee - Saturday 10 December, 2016
# HPV
# HPV
Gerard Craughwell said he would like medical experts as well as parents concerned about their daughters to attend.
# health-committee - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
# Supervised Injecting Centres
# Supervised Injecting Centres
An Oireachtas Health Committee is hearing submissions in relation to medically supervised injecting centres.
# health-committee - Thursday 21 January, 2016
# Suicide
# Suicide
“We simply cannot ignore this anymore. We have to be honest and ask ourselves, ‘Truly are we doing enough?’”
# health-committee - Wednesday 2 December, 2015
# Stop The Stigma
# Stop The Stigma
The “worrying” levels of HIV diagnoses have been discussed at the Oireachtas Health Committee . There are set to be more cases of HIV in Ireland in 2015 than in any other year.
# health-committee - Friday 29 May, 2015
# Man Overboard
# Man Overboard
Michael McNamara’s not having a great week.
# health-committee - Tuesday 19 May, 2015
# Portlaoise
# Portlaoise
Calls have been made for HSE Chief Tony O’Brien to resign.
# health-committee - Tuesday 24 March, 2015
# Everything Is Spinning
# Everything Is Spinning
A health committee was looking at the government’s proposed new alcohol laws today.
# health-committee - Thursday 26 February, 2015
# Rare Diseases
# Rare Diseases
Both of Tony and Mary Heffernan’s children died at the age of 5.
# health-committee - Thursday 18 December, 2014
# NOT QUALIFIED
# NOT QUALIFIED
The Oireachtas Health Committee has been told the industry is largely unregulated here.
# health-committee - Thursday 16 October, 2014
# Global Outbreak
# Global Outbreak
It won’t be a Hollywood apocalypse, politicians heard today.
# health-committee - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
# End Of Life Care
# End Of Life Care
The Health and Children Committee launched a report on end-of-life care based on submissions from stakeholders, experts and the public.
# health-committee - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
# Child Protection
# Child Protection
One particular investigation showed that a child had been moved to 11 different residencies in 4 months.
# health-committee - Friday 6 June, 2014
# Committee Wars
# Committee Wars
The Oireachtas Health Committee is seeking to change the rules that currently prevent any other Oireachtas committee from investigating matters that are already being probed by the powerful Public Accounts Committee.
# health-committee - Thursday 15 May, 2014
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
The group of TDs will travel to north Dublin to visit the HSE’s medical card centre.
# health-committee - Thursday 3 April, 2014
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
The issues were discussed at a Health Committee this morning.
# health-committee - Wednesday 22 January, 2014
# Mattie McGrath
# Mattie McGrath
Mattie McGrath has been removed from two Oireachtas committees by the Dáil Technical Group.
# health-committee - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
The Health Minister will be questioned on the HSE service plan, which details how the executive will cut €619 million next year.
# health-committee - Thursday 28 November, 2013
# Health Committee
# Health Committee
Speaking before the Oireachtas committee today, one stressed that proposed legislation won’t cause an increase in premiums.
# health-committee - Friday 26 July, 2013
# No Butts
# No Butts
The Health Minister’s vowing to continue his war on smoking – and says cigarettes are the only freely available product he knows of that can kill the user.
# health-committee - Wednesday 3 July, 2013
# Protection Of Life
# Protection Of Life
The sub-committee on health is discussing changes to the Bill, which was passed at the second stage in the Dáil last night.
# Abortion
# Abortion
The nine-member sub-committee will today deal with the sections of the proposed legislation on suicide ideation.
# health-committee - Tuesday 2 July, 2013
# Abortion
# Abortion
The Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill has passed the second stage of the Dáil this evening with cross-party support but also cross-party opposition.
Cloudy with a shower this afternoon
Max: 12 °C
Min: 9 °C
Cloudy
Max: 11 °C
Min: 3 °C
