The Medical Board of HSE Mid West today issues an "unprecedented recommendation" to Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

The Common Conditions Services (CCS), launched in January, allows pharmacists to provide advice and treatments for eight conditions.

Damien McCallion was speaking as the Minister for Health launched Ireland’s AI for Care Strategy.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill told RTÉ radio’s Today with David McCullagh show that she had visited the building on Tuesday where she saw the ground floor, the lower ground floor and the sixth floor.

‘What I see is an increase in my area, and I do see a redeployment,’ the Health Minister said.

A charity representing cancer patients has said it expects a ‘move toward resolution’ when it meets the Transport Minister.

Opposition party leaders pushed the Taoiseach over whether or not a 2016 plan to relocate the hospital will go ahead.

Planning permission was originally granted by Dublin City Council in late July 2025, but was appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála by two third parties.

Parts of Co Wexford remain among the worst hit areas following further overnight rain.

The project will aim to help disabled people across the region to live more connected and independent lives.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin "takes zero notice of what Fianna Fáil backbenchers say", according to TD

Pathologists based in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) are no longer available to carry out coroner-requested post-mortems for the entire southeast

A new paper outlines how there is an ‘urgent need’ to secure a supply of health and social care workers.

Eilísh Hardiman served two terms as chief executive of CHI from 2013 until April 2024, and intended to pursue a third term in charge of the organisation

Simon Harris was speaking after a meeting this week with the parents of Harvey Sherratt, who died in July after waiting years for surgery.

Ivana Bacik said the questions from Fine Gael represented a ‘new level of ‘nasty’ in this presidential campaign’.

Nine-year-old Harvey Morrison, who had scoliosis and spina bifida, died on July 29th.

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