Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

It does not really work in all the CHOs. Some are very good, but not all. By and large, the national policy on access is not working. The policy is not just primary care; it is disability, primary care and mental health. It is about how we can integrate these. When people enter a service they might be in specialised disability services for OT and physiotherapy, but might need access to eye treatment in primary care. A person should still be recorded on the database within the HSE as needing that service. That is one of the pieces that is not working which we are going to address. We brought it up with Bernard Gloster and Yvonne O'Neill very recently. It is a priority for me, because there is no point in having a policy if it does not work.