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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (2 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: ...for students with special educational needs ranging in age from four to 18 years. It will comprise 20 mainstream classrooms, along with additional specialised rooms including art, home economics, woodwork, a library, GP room, a dining space, a sensory room, dedicated therapy rooms and all associated ancillary accommodation. The accommodation will take into consideration the specific...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: I am not proposing that they ask GPs to do the developmental checks. What I mean is that, if parents see something with their child that they are concerned about, they should go to the GP. I am not asking the GPs to replace the public health nurses in providing the general checks.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (2 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...2023, 385 people had an eating disorder diagnosis. It is important to note that in the same year, 343 people with an eating disorder diagnosis were discharged from specialist services back to their GP. The HSE works hard to meet the needs of people with eating disorders in the setting most appropriate to their needs, whether that be community eating disorder teams, beds in the public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: South-West Doctor-on-Call Limited, known as SouthDoc, provides OOH GP services for Counties Cork and Kerry. It has a membership of over 500 GPs and a network of 26 treatment centres including those at Skibbereen, Clonakilty and Bandon. SouthDoc dealt with over 212,000 patient contacts in 2023. I would like to assure the Deputy, that the HSE is in regular contact with SouthDoc to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...HSE National Stroke Strategy over the last two Budgets, delivering on our Programme for Government commitments. Under the prevention pillar, instances of stroke will be prevented through the expansion of the GP Contract to include opportunistic case finding of High Blood Pressure, (a principal risk factor in stroke) in over 45-year-olds with a GMS/GP visit card. The HSE advise that this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, the HSE interim Model of Care for Long COVID is being implemented, building on existing service provision, in addition to establishing new services across GP, community services and acute hospitals, to ensure a national service is in place for all who need it. In 2023 €6.6m was allocated for continued development of these services. The model of care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. As of the start...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...chance of recovery. As with any cancer screening programme, BowelScreen is for healthy people without symptoms. It is vital that anyone who has symptoms they are concerned about contacts their GP for appropriate follow-up care.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...The HSE is also required to undertake periodic reviews of eligibility in order to ensure that a person continues to meet the qualifying criteria required to continue holding eligibility. Where any medical or GP visit card holder has a review process initiated, it should be noted that he/she will continue to retain their eligibility for the duration of the review process. However, every...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., with 2,766 WTEs onboarded and a further 41 WTEs at an advanced stage of recruitment. The Community Healthcare Networks (CHNs) - for the first time in Ireland - provide for the integration of General Practice (GP) with wider community services. They act as the foundational structures of community-based care within the new Integrated Healthcare Areas (IHAs). Alongside these, the Community...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Hildegarde Naughton: ...administration within the State of contaminated blood and blood products. The enhanced medical card provided for in this Bill will ensure survivors have access to a range of health supports through the HSE, including GP services, home nursing and home helps, chiropody and podiatry and physiotherapy. This approach is consistent with the approach taken in respect of the Magdalen...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Matt Shanahan: When this Government was formed in 2020 there was a post office, a GP practice and an active Garda station in Gaeltacht na nDéise. Despite all the ráméising in this House about protecting our Irish language, having it listed as an official EU working language, mandatory publishing and broadcasting as Gaeilge, the Government supports required to protect our teanga are not in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Clare and 16 additional fast-build beds. The opening hours of the region's three acute medical assessment units at Nenagh, Ennis and St. John’s are due to be extended to 24-7 on a phased basis. GP and advanced nurse practitioner on-the-door services are also being provided for the emergency department. I say that by way of, I hope, conveying a view that the Government is doing...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...for work. The problem we have is that for decades, the Government has not invested in infrastructure. When people came here the Government told the people of Ireland it would provide services, such as GP and recreational services, and would support people in Ireland so that we could welcome people here. The problem, however, is that the infrastructure of this country is not capable of...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Rónán Mullen: ...includes a general practitioner, it would, therefore, exclude any general practitioner who had notified the Minister in the terms I have just outlined. The effect of that would be to provide for a GP with a conscientious objection to the provision of the service in question who does not want to be in any way, shape or form to be used in the context of any threat by the Garda of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., which is totally inadequate for the modern practice of medicine. It needs refurbishment and upgrading but I was told it was not going to happen. Cornamona health centre is a newish one that was built in the 2000s. It is not used by the GP. I cannot understand why health services, such as speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, counselling services, etc.,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the translation supports, if any, that are available to GP practices that do not qualify for assistance from HSE primary care or HSE social inclusion but provide service to a large cohort of Ukrainian patients. [19701/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...the process for when an individual with a disability applies to PAS through a competition, say, or for some kind of accommodation? Does the individual have to submit a certificate from his or her GP certifying his or her disability and what supports he or she needs? What happens with this information? At what point do the prospective employers receive the information? Can we improve...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Seán Crowe: ...'s agenda, from the Irish Dental Association I am pleased to welcome: Mr. Fintan Hourihan, chief executive officer; Dr. Rory Boyd, president; Dr. Will Rymer, president-elect; and Dr. Caroline Robins, GP committee chair. From the Dental Council of Ireland I welcome: Dr. Gerry Cleary, president; Dr. Catherine Gallagher, vice president; Dr. David O’Flynn, registrar; and Mr. Paul...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...have a clear list. We have looked to put in place solutions in certain areas to divert, through the provision of bespoke medical services, Ukrainians and international protection applicant from GP lists so that people do not experience delays beyond the existing pressures that we all recognise are on GP services.