Results 1-17 of 17 for gp speaker:Niall Collins

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Niall Collins: ...each individual. Services for all international protection applicants, including healthcare, are mainstreamed and are accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens. Residents in accommodation centres access GP services within the local community. Mental health services are accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens, that is through primary care, GP...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (2 Feb 2023)

Niall Collins: ...and vomiting during pregnancy where consultant obstetrician-initiated. While the initial prescription for Cariban must be issued by a consultant, further prescriptions can be issued by the patient's GP. Consultant initiation is the case for all unlicensed exempt medicinal products under the community drugs schemes. The HSE advise that where a drug is not licensed, the expertise of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (7 Jul 2022)

Niall Collins: ...be transmitted to the Minister for Health and the HSE. I assure her that the Government remains committed to ensuring that patients throughout the country continue to receive adequate access to GP services and particularly to out-of-hours services. We know we could do with more GPs. We all face that fact in our constituencies. The preliminary census numbers have been published and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (7 Jul 2022)

Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. General practice is at the heart of primary care, and a robust general practice and GP out-of-hours service is essential to the delivery of primary care health service. The Government recognises there are capacity challenges facing general practice. However, the Minister for Health's ambition for general practice is to ensure everyone...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Niall Collins: ...know the Minister is due to visit shortly and he really needs to focus, through his office and Department, in addressing that issue. On primary care, the Minister has concluded a deal with the GPs and that deal has been accepted. We need to continue to energise, recruit and qualify GPs, however, because that is a critical pipeline. Within five years, half of County Limerick will not...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2018)

Niall Collins: I am sure the Tánaiste is well aware that the country is sleepwalking into a crisis in terms of the provision of front-line community medical care through our GPs. Some 10% of the approximately 2,400 GPs practising around the country are due to retire in the next two years, with 30% due to retire within the next seven years. In County Limerick, we have 46 GPs and almost a quarter are...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Niall Collins: ...and this Government with regard to the withdrawal of front-line services from our communities in rural Ireland, including post offices, Garda stations, credit unions, public health clinics and GP clinics. I refer to the whole unravelling of services. The Government is telling people to do business with it on the online platforms, including applying for medical cards, passports and basic...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Niall Collins: ...when summing up to respond to some of these issues relating to vagueness. As we are discussing FEMPI, I take the opportunity to quote from a letter that I and other Oireachtas Members received from a GP in a rural practice, which happens to be in my constituency. It relates to FEMPI and the broader health service. It states:As you may be aware the all-party Oireachtas Committee on the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)

Niall Collins: ...going to be on the rolling out of primary care centres? There is chaos in terms of the HSE's ability to deliver primary care centres. 1 o’clock With regard to the negotiation of a new GP contract, I will give the example of my own constituency where there are 46 GPs. Eleven of them are due to retire within the next five years. They cannot find replacements, cover or locum...

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Niall Collins: ...pursuing for a number of years. It is hollowing out the core of communities, be they rural or urban. The list, which is not exclusive, includes small schools, Garda stations, banks, credit unions, GP outreach services, public health clinics, Bus Éireann rural transport services, the regional veterinary laboratories, post offices and the Leader companies. All those services in both...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Report Stage (10 Feb 2015)

Niall Collins: ...from Justice for Magdalenes Research, JFMR, just prior to the debate's commencement in which a number of pertinent questions are posed with regard to medical cards and the provision of GP services. In the correspondence, JFMR welcomes the Minister's intention that Magdalen women can access the services of any GP, including private practitioners, but indicates that she has not addressed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight: Discussion (14 May 2014)

Niall Collins: My final question is addressed to Dr. O'Flaherty. What are the rights of a person in Garda custody in terms of access to a medic or a GP? Is that a Garda policy or procedure or is it set down in legislation? Does it need to be provided for in legislation or does the present legislation need to be changed or updated?

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Feb 2014)

Niall Collins: 16. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP dispensing facilities that have been withdrawn by the primary care reimbursement services since the start of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6937/14]

Older Citizens: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: ..., and he has not given a start date for that measure. I asked the Taoiseach this morning if it will require legislation to roll out medical cards for children under five and the position with the GP contracts but he was unable to answer that question for me. I would appreciate it if the Minister of State would address that issue when replying. I want to comment on the impact on older...

Order of Business (23 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: Will the Taoiseach clarify if legislation is required to amend GP contracts in respect of the roll-out of free GP care for children under five years of age, as announced in the budget?

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Niall Collins: ...with her permission, to try to further her case. I have been dealing with people from the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS. She is at the end of her tether. It is about a medical report and her GP has furnished a detailed medical report. She is literally at her wits end and her GP is telling her that the PCRS has been furnished with her medical status. This woman has cancer....

Hospital Services: Motion (10 Feb 2009)

Niall Collins: Deputy O'Sullivan mentioned general practitioners. This is not a criticism but I would like to see more investment in GP training and more places for GP trainees in the mid west. We have had a number of female GPs who, due to life responsibilities and family circumstances, cannot work on a full-time basis and we need more training places. Any debate about the HSE showers that agency with...