Senator Tom Clonan said Heather Humphreys ‘very strongly pushed’ for tiered welfare supports for disabled people.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has hit out at the main contractor of the new National Children’s Hospital over when it will be completed.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said population health screening programmes are vital for early disease detection

The high cost of healthy foods and gym memberships are also creating barriers to living a healthy lifestyle, according to the research.

The Health Minister was unable to provide a date for when additional rare diseases will be added to a newborn screening programme.

The project is scheduled to finish in September, from an original completion date of August 2022.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the findings will ‘help us plan better’.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill announced updated access criteria for state-funded assisted human reproduction treatment.

New analysis shows that consultants could have have held 1.5 million more appointments last year if they were operating on 2016 productivity levels.

The Health Minister said the dashboard was an effort to present ‘the best transparency we possibly can’ on hospital activity.

However, she said she felt there was “something wrong” with the cervical screening programme that needed to be identified and addressed.

The number of children admitted to adult intensive care units doubled to 148 cases in 2023

CHI was established in 2019 to govern and operate paediatric services in Ireland, and currently operates Temple Street, Crumlin and Tallaght hospitals. It will also operate the new National Children’s Hospital upon completion.

It comes after an audit found many children underwent ‘unnecessary’ hip surgeries at two Dublin hospitals.

Micheal Martin said that Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was ‘strengthening’ governance within Children’s Health Ireland.

The initiative will see the investment by National Breast Cancer Research Institute to the University of Galway.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said that told the board expected the watchdog’s recommendations to be implemented ‘as quickly as possible’.

The Taoiseach pushed back against whether the Government was partly to blame for governance failures at Children’s Health Ireland.

Marian Lovett had a clear mammogram in 2022, but a year later, she was diagnosed with terminal, stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said she had a meeting with the Pharmacy Union on February 11th

After years of delay the first phase of the health digitisation process was launched.

The Department of Health said patients waiting on trolleys rose from 253 on Saturday to more than 617 on Tuesday.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the world had 'changed dramatically in the last three years'

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said a commissioning phase lasting up to nine months would be required once the building was completed

The Regional Independent Group has the "air of a political party about them" and are likely to be stable partners for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, according to a political commentator

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week ahead

Fine Gael members held a regional meeting on Friday night in Dublin days after the draft programme for government was agreed.

Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said Fianna Fáil had created a housing crash during the financial crisis

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said she didn't want a situation where somebody convicted of a serious offence in the past has 'since been promoted'

Simon Harris has appointed his junior ministers on his first full day as Taoiseach

Insurance premiums for liability cover increased by 8 per cent in 2022, despite the total cost of settlements falling by 14 per cent on 2019 settlements

Here, we look at the figures who have a chance at taking over from Mr Varadkar