Minister for Health Simon Harris has said that he is “nowhere near satisfied” that people are taking social distancing recommendations seriously.

Health Minister Simon Harris has launched a blistering attack on anti-abortion protesters outside the National Maternity Hospital on Wednesday, saying their actions were “intimidating, sickening and anti-democratic.”

The opposition is considering tabling a motion of no confidence against Health Minister Simon Harris early in the new year, a move that could defeat the coalition’s paper-thin majority and trigger a snap general election.

Health Minister Simon Harris has denied he displayed “a lack of empathy” with the women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal who recently learned that they had received incorrect results.

Events are taking place across the globe today to mark World Aids Day.

The Health Minister has been accused of "moving the goalposts" several times on a delayed CervicalCheck review.

Health Minister Simon Harris received a stinging rebuke from one of his most senior Cabinet colleagues over applications to increase the supplementary, or overrun, health budget for 2020, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

The concealment of information from women caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal was deceitful, but not necessarily deliberately so, Health Minister Simon Harris has said.

Loyalty card programmes and retail promotions that encourage alcohol consumption are to be banned under plans announced by Health Minister Simon Harris.

Ireland’s newest maternity hospital will conduct private healthcare business on its premises despite Health Minister Simon Harris voting to keep all business in the new facility public.

"Fake" news and "scaremongering" - or an attempt to hide the true impact of the spiralling children's hospital costs crisis in plain sight after months of repeated delays.

Campaigner Vicky Phelan says lessons do not appear to have been learned in the way risks are managed in relation to cervical screening.

The service is part of a targetted government strategy to promote sexual health.

It will be based in Co Cork, at the Rathcoole Aerodrome and will aim to provide emergency healthcare to people living in remote areas in the south of the country.

The Government has promised that a break up of the health services into six regions will reduce the number of managers and improve care for patients.

Micheál Martin has questioned how “alarm bells” didn’t go off in the Department of Health when they received a letter from a woman waiting on smear test results.

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The Minister for Health is promising exclusion zones outside hospitals will be a "major priority" when the Dáil returns from its break in September.

It follows the establishment of a working group on the matter earlier this year that was set up on the recommendation of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment.

The biggest barrier to family planning is the high cost of contraception, according to the National Women's Council of Ireland.

A HIV prevention strategy using a highly effective drug will be launched in the autumn.

Minister Harris says the restriction for under 18s would work in a similar way to the sunbed ban.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said fellow Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey could have withdrawn her injury claim over falling off a swing before the local and European elections.

The health minister has rejected claims by senior doctors that Ireland is recklessly sliding towards the general legalisation of cannabis.

The Health Minister has warned hospital managers that they cannot recruit staff "willy-nilly" and must stay under budget.

Sinn Féin says the Health Minister needs to apologise over the latest outpatient waiting list figures.

The focus must be on improving rates of family consent when providing an opt-out system of organ donation, the Irish Kidney Association has urged.

The Government must invest at least €12m each year to tackle a "crisis" in dementia care the Alzheimer Society of Ireland warns.

Health Minister Simon Harris has formally asked opposition parties to allow the bill establishing the tribunal to be sped through the Oireachtas just days after the cabinet agreed on the details of the plan.

Mr Harris said the activity outside his home in Greystones was not a protest, "it’s an attempt to intimidate".

Gardaí were called after a group called Fingal Battalion staged the latest in a series of demonstrations calling for the Health Minister's resignation.