Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly is seeking to be kept on as Minister for Health.

When asked for clarity on the figures, Minister Donnelly’s office replied that “as of September 27th, 362 spinal surgeries have been completed this year to date”.

Speaking on The Tonight Show on Virgin Media Television on Wednesday night, Fianna Fáil TD Niall Collins said that the spinal surgery waiting list of 138 paediatric patients

Beaumont Hospital was taken to the High Court by the Irish Kidney Association (IKA) after it repeatedly failed to hand back a 13-bedroom support centre to the charity.

Micheál Martin said there was ‘work to be done’ before the three Coalition party leaders sat down to talk about the impending ballot.

Aoife, 16, died at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) in 2022 after waiting for 12 hours to be assessed for suspected sepsis.

The hospital was originally scheduled to be completed in 2020 with a budget of €650 million

The Minister for Health said he wanted to speak directly to the 16-year-old’s parents on the subject.

The Minister for Health said he had asked Bam for more workers to be put on site to help finish the job.

The Peaceplus investment will support 80,000 people across eight health and social care initiatives

The Sinn Féin leader said the promise made by government to clear waiting lists has been broken.

'This is all down to a flawed contract,' David Cullinane said.

The Department of Health and construction form BAM clashed over the much-delayed National Children’s Hospital.

The Minister for Health is seeking to extend the free contraception scheme to 16-year-old girls.

The Government is expected to approve measures to ban the sale, manufacture or import of single-use or disposable vapes

Scheduled care was cancelled at five hospitals and injury units in the Mid-West for an indefinite period

The Taoiseach said there was ‘absolutely a need for more bed capacity’ in the area.

The eight common conditions on the initial list include oral thrush, cold sores and UTIs.

Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe said the deal aims to get ‘the balance right’ on funding the health service

Children’s Health Ireland did not entirely use a bumper allocation in 2019 for child spinal surgeries.

A report published this week revealed an increase in cocaine addiction across the country.

In documents urging a “catch-up” programme for the MMR vaccine, officials said that nearly one in five males in the 18-to-19-year-old age bracket were “non-immune”.

Stephen Donnelly said that if consultants’ productivity increased to previous levels, outpatient waiting lists would be ‘eradicated’.

It would make Ireland the first country in the EU to take the measure.

Data shows that those aged 18 to 21 are at high risk of becoming smokers

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said he is having ongoing conversations with Cabinet colleagues about the issue

The inaugural Joint Euro-American Forum on Cancer, which began at Farmleigh House on Thursday, had a particular focus on inequalities in care.

The €2.2 billion hospital is projected to start treating children in 2025.

It comes on the back of recent reporting of an unpublished investigation which found that overcrowding in the Limerick Emergency Department was a fundamental factor in the death of UHL patient Martin Abbott (65) from Shannon, in December 2019.

The Human Tissue Bill will bring in a system of 'deemed' or presumed consent to organ donation after a person dies

Stephen Donnelly said the State had failed ‘far too many’ children in need of orthopaedic care

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has appealed to the contractor to stick to the construction deadline

The health minister has said he wants to ensure that these are the last children who are ‘failed by their state and by their health service’.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was speaking as he launched a new report that looked at improving working conditions for non-consultant hospital doctors

A significant increase of measles cases notified in Europe this winter has raised concerns about wide transmission of the disease in Ireland this year.

Breda Smyth has been offered the post of Professor of Public Health with the RCSI 'in partnership with the HSE'

Residents of Oliver Bond House are 2.4 times more likely to have asthma in their medical records as other patients attending the same GP practice

Mr Donnelly said that what had happened in Roscrea “should not have happened” and must have been very traumatic for the children and families being brought into what was “essentially their refuge, their new home.”

The Minister said there was a need to move to a seven-day-a-week service

Aoife Johnston died in December 2022 after waiting 12 hours in University Hospital Limerick’s Emergency Department

Stephen Donnelly has congratulated the HSE for reducing the number of people waiting on trollies for a hospital bed.

Cabinet approval for international surrogacy legislation has been described as a "massive step forward" for Irish families with children born through surrogacy

A row between two ministers over the health budget will be a "threat to patient safety", a Sinn Féin TD has claimed