A decision on the modifications proposed to part of the Brewery Quarter events centre complex in Cork’s inner city is due within weeks.

OUR hit-and-miss, two-tier health system has been at the very centre of public debate and frustration for decades. 

The spectre of dive-bombing seagulls attacking maintenance workers on the top of the Department of Health’s Hawkins House HQ in Dublin has been eliminated.

The Government wants to get rid of seagulls around the Department of Health in Dublin.

With the festive season upon us, Catherine Shanahan asks Health Minister Leo Varadkar and a mix of doctors questions the general public don’t normally get to ask.

The report provides a succinct summation of much that has gone wrong with James Reilly’s tenure in office, writes Niall Hunter.

Ministers are availing of a special allowance for secretarial services, consultancy, policy advice, and public relations, according to details supplied by their offices.

A PRIVATE consultancy firm is set to be parachuted into the health service in an attempt to solve the country’s hospital trolley crisis.

ANGRY student nurses have warned politicians they will be punished in the general election unless plans to abolish their pay during ward placements are reversed.

Angry student nurses have warned politicians they will be punished in the General Election unless plans to abolish their pay during ward placements are reversed.

IN your news brief headlined ‘Departmental responsibility’ (September 9), it was stated “the Department of Health declined to answer more than half of all parliamentary questions (PQs) sent last year, claiming it no longer had responsibility for the issues raised” and that “Hawkins House was unable to answer 3,179 of the queries”.

The Department of Health has issued a statement to say that files relating to controversial child vaccine trials are not missing.

IN December 2005, just before Ivor Callely’s ministerial career came crashing to a halt, he rejected rumours that he had demanded a new carpet and wider refurbishment in his office at the Department of Transport.

GardaÍ are investigating a letter containing a shotgun cartridge which was posted to Health Minister Mary Harney.

IF one is given to airing opinions on something as important as society’s treatment of the mentally ill, then it is only proper one is familiar with the real facts of the situation, as well as overall intent and trend.

NEWSWEEK ran an absorbing story this week featuring bitter criticism by retired US generals of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The Office of Public Works is to sell the Department of Health building at Hawkins House in Dublin city centre.

Former Health Minister Michael Martin today angrily hit back at claims by his department’s secretary general that he was aware of illegal nursing homes charges as early as 2003.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney admitted yesterday that a key part of her 10-point plan to solve the Accident and Emergency crisis - the provision of three acute medical units in major hospitals - will not be delivered this year.

THE Government is expected to appoint the new secretary general of the Department of Health next Tuesday, following the cancellation of today’s Cabinet meeting in Cork.

The Office of Public Works has indicated it is close to finding a new headquarters for the Department of Health.

THE Travers report into the Health Department’s handling of nursing home charges was delayed because the secretary general only submitted his final statement on the day the report was due.

MICHEÁL MARTIN and Michael Kelly worked for almost five years from adjoining offices on the sixth floor of the Department of Health headquarters, yet their accounts of the illegal charging of nursing home patients over that time are world’s apart.

ALMOST €25,000 of taxpayers’ money went towards financing Health Minister Micheál Martin’s trip to New York to assess the effectiveness of the smoking ban.