Department of Health
FOI Requests — 4736 requests
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
• Any written communication between the Irish Pharmacy Union and the Department of Health on the topic of a proposal to offer free HRT (hormone replacement therapy) products, sent at any time between October 1 2024 and January 3 2025. • Any briefings or memos prepared for the minister of health internally within the Department of Health on the topic of a proposal to offer free HRT products including documents on costings, prepared between July 2024 and October 1 2024. • Any briefings or memos prepared for the minister of health by the HSE and / or the Primary Care Reimbursement Service on the topic of a proposal to offer free HRT products including documents on costings, prepared between July 2024 and October 1 2024.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copies of any correspondence Btw Stephen Donnelly & the IHCA or INMO re: hospital staff working outside their normally rostered hours to help with overcrowding in hospitals and emergency units, Any internal briefings, memos/documents prepared for the Minister re: hospital overcrowding during the winter period, Dates between 1st November 2022 to 4th January 2023
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Briefings or documents prepared for either Minister Harris/Dept. Secretary General re; delays in chemotherapy provision at Crumlin Children's Hospital. Records held in the email account of Minister Harris relating to delays to provision of chemotherapy treatment to patients at Crumlin Children's Hospital. Both parts of this request to cover the period 1 November 2019 to date.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All correspondence between the Minister and the CMO, Ministers' advisors and CMO, Minister and officials in DOH re: Regulation of termination of pregnancy bill 2018 May-Nov 2018.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All letters and emails between staff at the Central Mental Hospital and the Health Minister since January 1, 2019. (re: capacity issues at the hospital)
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records and breakdown re; costs spent on providing equipment to facilitate government employees from your Department and the Minister working from home since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All records relating to the successful Lottery grant application for the following: Islandeady Cycling Club, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. Glen Neiphin Mens Shed, Ballina, Co. Mayo. Mayo Mental Health Association Ltd, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. Balla Community Resource Development Ltd, Balla, Co. Mayo. Seirbhisi Curam Chill Chomain Teo, Ballina, Co. Mayo. Western Care Association, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All emails in the last six months from the Department's officials within the relevant line unit to the Minister over the free contraception scheme.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Can I request under the Freedom of Information Act any and all correspondence to the minister for health about safe access zone legislation from TDs and senators 2022-2023
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Corr. between the Dept. of Health & DPER in respect of Budget 2022, discussion btw officials from both Depts at grade of AP/PO and up. From April to October.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Correspondence between the Minister’s office in the Department of Health and the HSE generated by and relating to the inquest held on XXX into the death of XXX at the Department of Psychiatry, Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
HLT 00944-25: NTPF Assurance Review I wish for my request to cover the period from 1/1/2025 - 30/9/2025.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
HLT 01087-25: Briefing to support meeting with Endometriosis Specialists I wish for my request to cover the period from 1/1/2025 - 30/9/2025.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) prepared under Article 35(1) GDPR in the lead up to the passing of the Health (Amendment) No2 Act 2021 on July 2021.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copy of the DPIA prepared under Article 35(1) GDPR in the lead up to the passing of the Health (Amendment) No 2 Act 2021 on 21/07/21.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copy of the DPIA prepared under Article 35(1) GDPR in the lead up to passing of the Health (Amendment) No. 2 Act July 2021.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copy of the DPIA prepared under Article 35(1) GDPR in the lead up to passing of the Health (Amendment) No. 2 Act July 2021.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
DPIA prepared under Article 35(1) GDPR in the lead up to the passing of the Health (Amendment) No 2 Act 2021 on July 2021.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
DPIA prepared under Article 35(1) GDPR in the lead up to the passing of the Health (Amendment) No 2 Act July 2021.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Corr. containing "sewer rats" or "scum" received by Minister Butler from "XXX" during the period 01/07/20 – 05/10/21.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Letters from Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to the Minister for Health during 2020/2021, and responses to same.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
New wording: Old date range (1 July 2025 - present). New date range as of 15/09/2025 (1 August 2025 - 20 August 2025). I request the following records from 1 August to 20 August 2025-present about the medevac scheme for Gazan children and/or visa/administrative matters concerning their relatives: • Any external correspondence (including attachments) between Catherine Curran or Maria McLoughlin in the Health Security Unit and the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration; • Any internal correspondence (including attachments) between Catherine Curran or Maria McLoughlin in the Health Security Unit and ministers and/or ministerial staff/advisors; • Briefings for, presentations delivered at, and minutes of the most recent meeting between the Health Security Unit with staff in the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration and/or the HSE concerning the above issue; • Briefings for, presentations delivered at, and minutes of any meetings of the minister/minister for state with any of the following: minister/minister of state in the Department of Justice and/or senior management in the HSE; • A copy of any memos brought to Cabinet by Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill related to the above issues / to evacuate patients’ family members • The most recent up-to-date briefing or report about the medevac scheme for Gazan children and/or
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I am seeking a list of e-submissions submitted to the Minister for Health through the e-submissions channel. I wish for my request to cover the period from 01-08-2025 - 31-08-2025.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
-A list of all commissioned research conducted by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs/National Advisory Committee on Drugs and Alcohol and the allocated budget for each of the commissioned pieces of research -A list of all published research commissioned by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs/National Advisory Committee on Drugs and Alcohol
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All Department of Health notes and documents in relation to the development of a national hearing care plan, as recommended by the World Health Organisation in 2021. Specifically, I am seeking any minutes, notes and related documents held in the Department of Health relating to: (i) Emails and correspondence from Chime to the Department of Health on the need for a national hearing care plan since March 3rd 2021; (ii) A meeting between Chime and Department officials on September 9th 2022; (iii) A meeting between Chime, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, T.D. and Department officials on May 8th 2023.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records of all costs incurred by the department in the hiring of private investigator services in the period 1 Jan 2016 to date of receipt of this request, broken down by year, firm, amount and description of services.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
1. Copies of all incident reports received from Mandatory Hotel Quarantine hotels in relation to abconsions or other incidents. 2. Copies of all records in relation to lobbying received by the MHQ hotels or the Department from public bodies in relation to people who are required to be in quarantine.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All documentation, memos, notes, emails, and any other communications documentary or otherwise relating to the below: Between the Minister for Health, his agents or offices or delegates or any other medical or legal advice or correspondence with third parties in relation to the decision to sanction termination of pregnancy services via remote communications / telemedicine during te covid-19 virus.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Written communication including emails, memos, briefings sent to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly from Children’s Health Ireland on the topic of paediatric orthopaedic surgery for conditions such as Spina Bifida and Scoliosis in the time period December 2023 to present time Any briefings prepared internally within the Department of Health for Minister Donnelly on the topic of paediatric orthopaedic surgery for conditions such as Spina Bifida and Scoliosis at any time since December 2023 Any written communication from the HSE to Minister Donnelly on the topic of outsourcing care abroad for children with spina bifida and/ or scoliosis at any time since December 2023.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Re Public Health Alcohol Bill:Corr, Minister’s office and Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), also between Minister of States’ offices and DAA.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
I am looking for copies of all minutes and reports associated with the Department of Health's Senior Oversight Group of the National Children's Hospital. The group is headed by Robert Watt and meets regularly to discuss oversight of the project. The timespan for the request is January of this year to date.
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copies of all correspondence to/from Minister Stephen Donnelly on the topic of health labels on alcoholic drinks. Records of all meetings attended by Mr Donnelly on the same topic including the date, agenda and minutes of those meetings. Records of any phone calls involving Mr Donnelly on the same topic including the dates, names of the participants and any notes taken on the contents of the calls. The time period for the records involved can be limited to between 1/1/2023 and 30/5/2023.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Any corr. btw Professor Harry Kennedy-director of the CMH & DOH, briefing docs/memos prepared for the Minister or Ministers of State re: CMH 2020/2021 to date.
- GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All correspondence between Fergus Sharpe, Jannsen, and Robert Watt, secretary general, dated between 25/01 and 25/05.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All briefings received by the Minister for Health and Office of the Chief Medical Officers in regard to the safety and licensing of the medication sodium valproate/Epilim. The briefings would date from 1 October 2013–when the first EMA review of valproate medicines commenced – to 4 April 2023. Minutes of meetings of the national drugs advisory board that led to positive decisions regarding the licensing/authorisation of sodium valproate and Epilim during the 1970s and 1980s.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copies of any records held by the Minister or his office relating or referring to his mobile phone being hacked in 2022, as well as copies of any correspondence between the Minister and the National Cyber Security Centre.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Records dated between 1st January 2023 - 31st March 2023 Details, notes, memos, written records, emails, including text / WhatsApp messages, of any meetings and communications between all Department of Health staff - including Minister Donnelly - with any employees of the company Healthcare Logic, including its CEO.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
1. I would like all correspondence between the Minister for Health and the chair of the HSE Board Ciaran Devine dealing with: b. Hospital waiting Lists 2. I would like all correspondence between the Minister for Health and the HSE CEO Bernard Gloster dealing with: b. Hospital waiting Lists between the dates 1 January 2024 and 20 March 2024.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Copy of minutes of meetings of the health service savings and productivity taskforce since 01 January 2024 Copy of submissions made to the health service savings and productivity taskforce since 01 January 2024
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
All corr. from elected officials to the Minister of Health re: transgender healthcare in the lifetime of this government.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A copy of the review into dossiers complied by your department into children with autism which was completed in November 2020, as referred to in the Irish Examiner article here: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40251527.html
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A copy of the review, and its terms of reference, by an external senior counsel, completed last November, following a protected disclosure regarding the collection of information regarding litigants suing the department and their families.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Corr between Minister Stephen Donnelly, Minister Frank Feighan, and Minister Helen McEntee or staff regarding CBD products’ legal status under Irish/EU law since 2020. Corr relating to case Case C-663/18 and the import of CBD into France.
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- RefusedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
A list of the organisations consulted by the department in determining its policy on the 'inclusive' use of the words 'women' or in the singular use, 'woman' as set out in the explanatory note on page 5 of the publication. Records recording discussions by the Minister and department on the ethical obligation of the department to reach out to, discuss with. and take into account the views of women and teenage girls who the department knows exist and, who are routinely referred to as 'Gender Critical women' or, in a more pejorative sense. as 'Terfs' and, which group of women are not represented by the tax funded National Council of Ireland because of the views they hold and articulate publicly in relation to women being a unique sex based category of women, in relation to the departments policy on the 'inclusive' use of the words 'women' or in the singular use, 'woman' as set out in the explanatory note on page 5 of the publication. Any records, particularly peer reviewed academic papers, which the department holds or which the department can refer me to showing or proving that the state ' gender non binary' exists as a verifiable state in reality.
- Part-grantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
- Part GrantedReceived —Decided —Department of Health
Emails between the Minister for Health and the chief executive of the HSE regarding Budget 2024. Emails between the Minister for Health and the Department of Health secretary general regarding Budget 2024. Emails between the Department of Health secretary general and the HSE chief executive regarding Budget 2024. This request should include emails. It should cover the period 01 July 2023 to the present day.