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Department of Health

FOI Requests — 2730 requests

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    Corr. between Stephen Donnelly & Tony Holohan regarding antigen testing sent since Monday, November 15th.

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    All corr. between Dept. of Health & St Vincent’s Healthcare Group and Religious Sisters of Charity about governance arrangements of planned new maternity hospital.

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    All corr. between Dept. of Health & DPER about the proposed new deal with St. Vincent health care group, for the new maternity hospital.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. about the Irish language in the EU Covid-19 Digital Certificate, about the non-bilingual completion of the EU Covid-19 Digital Certificate, and regarding who did the English to Irish translation of the EU Digital Certificate Covid-19 as made available before 21 July 2021.

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    Department of Health

    All scientific data to support the excluding unvaccinated people from hospitality, and all data in Dept. of Health since introduction of vaccine passports who supports extension of vaccine passports to include reports as to the positive impact and cost.

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    Corr. between Dept. of Health & NAC on Bioethics relating to Part 7 of the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill; specifically dealing with generation of chimeric or human-animal hybrid embryos.

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    Corr. dated between 18 Oct and 10 Nov between the Department of Health and the HSE related to the distribution of antigen tests to fully-vaccinated, close contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases.

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    Department of Health

    All records since Jan 2020 to the present relating Dublin Fire Brigade Emergency Medical Service, sent and received by the Minister for Health.

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    Department of Health

    Corr. between Stephen Donnelly and Director General of the Dept. of Health about Navan Hospitals A&E or ICU departments.

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    Department of Health

    Records indicating whether or not the Secretary General of Dept. of Health in 2021 was paid salary rates without any FEMPI reductions, since his commencement to date.

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    Department of Health

    Meetings between Leo Varadkar led team, alongside Simon Harris TD & Minister for Health Promotion & National Drugs Strategy, Catherine Byrne TD & teams about the New Drug and Alcohol Strategy from May 2016.

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    Department of Health

    Costs related to paying companies outside of government for the removal and destruction of ‘confidential waste’ paper documents in 2020 and 2021.

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    Department of Health

    Minutes and documents related to the cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group meeting on 3 March 2022.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. between Minister & HSE/Ciaran Devine about the 2022 Waiting List Action Plan between 1 January & 27 February 2022 and between the Minister & HSE CEO Mr Paul Reid.

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    Department of Health

    Any records reporting the number of applications for Assessments of Need which have not yet been commenced within the 3 month’s statutory period.

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    Department of Health

    Any records sent to staff in Dept. of Health about Section 37 of the FOI Act, redaction of "personal information" and/or the redaction of names of officials from FOI releases.

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    Department of Health

    Minister Stephen Donnelly’s itinerary for Dubai trip/accompanying staff & duties, travel/subsistence/accommodation costs for all, receipts/credit card statements for all and minutes of meetings held/Minister’s Diary for the trip also.

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    Corr. between Dept. of Health & DPER about the creation of regional healthcare authorities between Oct 2021 and Jan 2022.

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    Corr. between Dept. of Health and DPER concerning expenditure associating with the High-Tech Drug Scheme between Oct 2021 and Jan 2022.

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    Department of Health

    Any corr. between Dept. of Health & DPER concerning the Sláintecare Consultant Contract between Oct 2021 and Jan 2022.

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    Department of Health

    Minutes of the Dept. of Health senior management board from Sep 2021 to Jan 2022.

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    Department of Health

    Any corr./internal briefings for Minister Feighan & minutes of meetings he or Dept. of Health officials attended, regarding the Citizens Assembly on Drugs.

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    Department of Health

    Any corr./internal briefings for Minister Donnelly & minutes of meetings he or Dept. of Health officials attended, regarding the Citizens Assembly on Drugs.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. received/sent by the Minister/Dept. officials relating to a Citizens Assembly on Drug Use, during the period Sept 2021 to date of request.

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    Department of Health

    All costs incurred for Dubai trip, including stop over costs, names of who travelled/dates of travel/ formal events/cost to the exchequer etc.

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    Department of Health

    The proposal referred to in the CMO's letter to the Minister on 17/02/21, about the appropriate structures and processes to monitor the epidemiological profile of Covid-19 following the conclusion of NPHET's work.

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    Department of Health

    All available minutes from the last four meetings of the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee.

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    Department of Health

    All records concerning the liability to the state of nosocomial transmission of Covid-19 held by Minister’s office & the Secretary General, 1 September 2021 to date.

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    Department of Health

    Any records, between Dept. of Health & Twitter, between Twitter & service provider acting on behalf of Dept. of Health, Timeframe: '2021 and thus far in 2022', referring or relating to posting of info by a Twitter account with handle @CovidHSE.

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    Department of Health

    When current Secretary General decided to end his waiver/deferral and to avail of the recent €81,000 salary increase.

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    Department of Health

    A breakdown of ‘Official Entertainment’ spending for each Minister or Minister of State from June 2020 to date.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. between the Minister with Special Responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy & his Officials about the Citizen’s Assembly on Drug Use; from June 2020 to date. Corr. between Dept. of Health officials & officials in any gov. Dept. about same.

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    Department of Health

    Any records held referring to the waiving/surrender/retention of a €81,000 pay increase by the Secretary General, from 1 January 2021 to date.

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    Department of Health

    How much funding did the following receive from the Dept. of Health: The Christine Buckley Centre, Right of Place, Justice for Magdalenes Research & Clann Project. Does the Dept. of Health own buildings at Bessborough, Blackrock, Cork? If so, the cost of these buildings?

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    Department of Health

    All reports on Dealgan House, Toberona, Dundalk, Co Louth prepared for Minister Butler from 1/7/20 to 7/8/21.

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    Department of Health

    All reports on Dealgan House Toberona Dundalk Co Louth prepared for Minister for Heath from 1/5/20 to 7/8/21.

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    Department of Health

    Copies of all flight details, bills/receipts/itineraries from a recent trip to the Dubai Expo by 4 people: the Minister, the Secretary General and two public officials.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. regarding Dealgan House, Toberona, Dundalk from Nursing Homes Ireland reps from 6/4/20 to 31/12/20 addressed to Robert Watt.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. regarding Dealgan House, Toberona, Dundalk from Nursing Homes Ireland reps from 6/4/20 to 31/12/20 addressed to Minister Butler.

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    Department of Health

    All corr. regarding Dealgan House, Toberona, Dundalk from Nursing Homes Ireland reps from 6/4/20 to 31/12/20 addressed to Minister Harris & Stephen Donnelly

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    Department of Health

    All telephone calls/text messages/emails/Minutes of Meetings between Simon Harris Minister for Heath and Paul Reid from 16/4/20 to 22/4/20.

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    Department of Health

    Any copies of minutes/agendas from meetings of the Sláintecare Implementation Board (co-chaired by Robert Watt & Paul Reid) that have taken place so far.

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    Department of Health

    Any reports and/or memos for National Interdepartmental AMR, Consultative Committee about the confirmed/potential spread of disease and/or AMR-land spreading of poultry litter and/or pig manure on agricultural land

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    Department of Health

    All available copies of minutes/agendas from meetings of the Regional Health Areas Advisory Group so far & notes provided to the new members.

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    Department of Health

    Costs associated with trip by Minister Donnelly & Robert Watt to Dubai in Jan/Feb 2022. Receipts for flights/hotels/subsistence/itinerary.

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    Department of Health

    Any records of media advice to Mr Watt or the Dept regarding media queries about Mr Watt’s remuneration & how to respond to journalists’ queries about Mr Watt’s remuneration from Feb. 2020 to date.

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    Department of Health

    Details of the Minister for Health’s Diary from 16/4/20 to 22/4/20.

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    Department of Health

    Corr. between Robert Watt & DPER & between other Dept. of Health staff & DPER about his financial remuneration from Feb. 2020 to date.

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    Department of Health

    Minutes of governance meetings between Dept. of Health and the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council from 3 May 2021 to Feb 2022.

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    Department of Health

    Minutes of governance meetings between Dept. of Health & Medical Council from 1 September 2021- 2 February 2022.