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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I know there are exemptions and so on. I accept all of that. I refer to the income thresholds. Do we know the last time they were changed for those under 70? Mr. Flanagan said it was quite a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Will Mr. Flanagan hang on a second? I am not asking about GP visit cards. I accept they have been extended. What we are talking about here is medical cards. The reason I am asking the question is because I accept what we are trying to do with the rent-a-room exemption and the logic for it. We have a housing crisis and students need accommodation. I fully accept it and I will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Could that information relating to increasing the income thresholds right across the board by increments of €10,000 be provided following this session today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: In whatever format Mr. Flanagan thinks is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I know and accept that. I do not need to hear a long list of what was done in other areas because I am aware of that. I accept it and I supported every additional measure that has been put in place. I am talking specifically about medical cards. I want to move on to the issue of pharmacies. If Mr. Flanagan can provide that note, that would be useful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: As I said at the start, I certainly welcome the provision in the Bill in respect of the rent-a-room scheme and the exemption from the financial assessment. That is worthwhile. On the pharmacy part of the Bill, if you want to call it that, I imagine that the core purpose of this is to expand the role and scope of how we manage medicines. It is essentially giving the Minister more power to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: One of the issues that has come up a lot over the past year – possibly longer but certainly the past 12 months – is there has been much more of a focus on medicine shortages and the possibility or need for what is called in other European countries a “serious shortage protocol”. No reference to that was made in the opening statement. How far advanced are we in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: This Bill is a necessary prerequisite to being able to put the protocol in place.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: For example, let us say a person is prescribed product A and product A is not available. Product B was not prescribed but is a similar type of product. Is it that we would then give flexibility to pharmacists to be able to prescribe similar products that ordinarily a person would have to get a prescription for but in that instance, that person would not? Is that essentially what-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I have two more questions. I imagine all of this is in the context of making better use of community pharmacy, and I support all of that. The Minister spoke about a minor ailment scheme several times last year. I know there was no additional funding in the budget to provide for it but I am not sure if it is something that can be delivered next year. Is it advanced and has it been costed?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I know the task force recommended it. I am talking about delivery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: The minor ailment scheme that was being looked at was broader than that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: I welcome the work of the task force. What was really welcome was how quickly it did its work and reported back with very strong recommendations that I think we would all support. One of the things that the Pharmacy Union has been calling for for a long number of years is the concept of chief pharmaceutical officer. If we had a chief pharmaceutical officer, one could argue that we would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: Who made the judgment it is not critical?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: At the moment, there is no Government plan or policy to do it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: No heckling.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Nov 2023)
David Cullinane: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department's offer of a two-storey modular unit for a school (details supplied) will impact the school's application to build on adjacent land recently purchased for her Department by Waterford City and County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47858/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)
David Cullinane: It is a fact.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)
David Cullinane: The reps are getting that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2023)
David Cullinane: That is misleading.