Following confirmation provided by the state to Galway businessman Declan Ganley, that it is unlawful and an offence to hold or attend public Mass subject to penalties, Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has written to the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly asking him to correct the Dáil record. Deputy Nolan said she […]
Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, failed to show up in the Dáil yesterday to answer questions from TDs who said that he needed to take urgent action on what they described as “shocking” and “barbaric” revelations about the practice of late-term abortion in Ireland. Nine TDs supported or spoke on the topical issues debate on late-term abortion in Irish […]
A parliamentary question was recently submitted to the Health Minister by Carol Nolan TD who asked an important question concerning abortion and women’s health and safety . She wanted to know “the number of patients that received post termination of pregnancy care in maternity hospitals from January 2019 to date; the number of those that […]
The chairman of NPHET and the Minister for Health have both recently alluded to the possibility of a second lockdown. Would you support this? VOTE in our Poll below and leave your comments here and on social media.
The Minister for Health has said that the arrangement allowing abortions to be carried out at home with pills during the Covid-19 lockdown will be reviewed – but he has not confimed that the changes will be reversed. Independent TD Carol Nolan asked Minister Stephen Donnelly if the change would be permitted beyond the Covid-19 […]
The slip-up came as the Wicklow TD was answering a question about whether a vaccine would be found to end the outbreak of Covid-19.
Several GPs have criticised Health Minister Simon Harris following what they call “misleading” comments he made on RTÉ’s Prime Time regarding the covid-19 virus. Referring to the virus, which has infected at least 61 people on the island of Ireland and claimed its first death on Irish soil last night, the Fine Gael health minister […]
The Department of Health, and Minister Simon Harris, have so far failed to respond to questions put to them asking if they had put in place measures, recommended by the World Health Organisation [WHO], to minimise the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at an international event the Department is co-hosting next week. They have also […]
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Minister for Health Simon Harris has only met with the board of the controversial Children’s Hospital twice in three years, it has been revealed.
Yesterday, a survey by the Sunday Independent revealed that GPs services are in crisis, with 44% of practices surveyed unable to take on any new patients. The Irish College of General Practitioners was quoted as saying a “perfect storm was brewing”. Spokesman Dr Liam Twomey, a GP in Wexford, said: “We are entering the perfect […]
Independent TD for Offaly, Carol Nolan, has urged the Health Minister, Simon Harris, to ensure the National Cancer Strategy will not be put in jeopardy by the massive over-spend racked up in building the National Children’s Hospital (NCH). Deputy Nolan made her comments after obtaining an answer to a parliamentary question from Minister Harris which […]