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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 18. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position on further plans on expansion of the role of community pharmacists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34893/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Pharmacists have shown time and again their great capacity to expand services and provide more and more services to communities locally, for example, vaccinations, repeat prescriptions and in so many other different ways. Will the Minister outline the next steps in expanding the role of pharmacies in community care?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister. She has kind of pre-empted my next question on GPs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: They are under pressure in the complexity and range and the load of the increasing population. GPs in many places are under pressure, especially in rural communities, and medical experts are available beside them with a willingness to expand out and give support. On the common conditions, it is good to hear that the Minister is aiming to get that done in the months ahead before the end...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Pharmacists have been raising with me the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023 and the dispensing of medication for animals. The implementation of the statutory instrument on that is due shortly. They feel very much that this restricts the capacity to make available veterinary medical products, between the cost of getting a prescription and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 111. To ask the Minister for Health her plans on the ESRI’s publication of the second health service capacity report, and specifically, the plans to increase the number of GPs and nurses nationally to meet the needs of rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if additional funding will be made available to clubs and organisations successful on their sports capital funding applications with rising costs of construction works, meaning lower value in the funding approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34891/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I welcome the departmental officials. Before we begin, I remind them that witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. This means a witness has a full defence in any defamation action in respect of anything said at a committee meeting. However, witnesses are expected not to abuse this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank Mr. Morrin and call Mr. Savage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: First, before we proceed I wish to confirm that we received apologies from Senator Collins. We are aiming at five-minute question-and-answer slots in order that there will be an opportunity to come back on a second round based on the time left available to us. I thank the officials for the presentations. We had the opportunity to read over them earlier as well. Farmers feel the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: The Deputy asked a reasonable question as to whether the Department would publish a review when it has identified issues. Is that the normal course of events? For example, if the Department identified that there are issues within its system or issues that farmers found difficult, or whatever it is, does the Department publish something like a review so things are smoother in the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Does Mr. Savage see that there would be value in having feedback?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Due to the vote in the Seanad, we skipped a number of Senators. I will go back to Senator Daly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Deputy, the committee could raise that point. It would not be Mr. Savage’s business to directly deal with Revenue about this but the committee could, if we chose-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: We need to move on. There will be another opportunity to come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: There will be another opportunity to come back in on that. I need to move on to Deputy Lawless.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: We will have an opportunity to go around again for each member. Once the Senators come in after their vote, we will give them the opportunity. I have one or two questions on this. Were there particular things the Department identified as causing problems but where a fix could be put in place so that this would not happen again with future schemes? What has been learned from it? We do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: On that uafásach word of "learnings", what learnings have been taken from this whole thing for the next round of new schemes? It is a question that came up earlier but can people getting paid next year expect to be paid in a timely manner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: The Senators have not had an opportunity for their first question yet.