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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...third-level students. Fees were waived for students sitting State exams. The list goes on. There was a further reduction of 25% in childcare costs. More than half the population is now entitled to free GP care. We abolished hospital inpatient charges also, as well as other charges. We reduced the threshold in respect of the drug payments scheme. We brought in a rent tax credit. An...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Protection (30 May 2024)

Garret Ahearn: ...be accommodated in Hearns Hotel and how many international protection applicants will this involve? What supports will be provided for them? As anyone from Clonmel will tell you, you cannot get a GP. If you go into a GP in Clonmel, they will tell you there are no vacancies. They cannot take you on. The accident and emergency department in the hospital is under huge pressure. Has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...of providing care closer to home. We are also making healthcare more affordable at a time when the cost-of-living crisis is affecting everyone through the removal of hospital inpatient charges, widened eligibility for the GP card and a reduced drug payment scheme threshold, among other things. The last budget provided funding for hundreds of millions of euro for waiting lists and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

James O'Connor: ...across the north Cork area including in Fermoy and Mitchelstown. Unfortunately, I am meeting a huge number of people who are retired or who have complicated healthcare needs and who want access to GP services across the north Cork area. In north Cork, we have two primary care centres but they are under serious pressure because of a lack of GP services. My siblings all work in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Approach to Day Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

...about topics such as living areas, relationships and sexuality. They have also published a report called Doctors and Us, in which they speak about the lived experience of people attending their GP and come up with concrete recommendations on how that can be improved. If we are to offer an overall statement in terms of this debate, on behalf of all our members, I wish to express the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: However, I think we would all agree that it is a major barrier. I would have much preferred it if the income limits for the medical card rather than those for the GP card had gone up. If you have a fixed sum of money, you have to make choices in this arrangement. The medical card guidelines are absolutely ridiculous. I am interested in a wider issue. Other than medical assessment for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, including an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for adults, and the...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...a stroke. He was in Mallow but he is back home and looking to go to suitable accommodation. He was offered a house nine doors down the road in the same block. How is he going to get into Mallow? How is he going to see his GP? How is he going to get his physiotherapy? He does not drive. He does not have a family. I know another lady. She is a victim of institutional abuse, savage...

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...people who live in these houses. Mould has serious implications in terms of breathing, coughs and chest infections. Many parents tell me that they are constantly bringing their children to the GP with recurring chest infections or coughs that they cannot get rid of. They also tell of their clothes stinking of mould, making them unwearable. It is really having an impact on people's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in priority order for medical card eligibility. In following the Expert Group’s advice, a person’s means remains the main qualifier for a medical card. Applications for a medical card and GP visit card can be made online at mymedicalcard.ie. This is the quickest method of getting the card. All of the required documentation that will assist in your application can also be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of a GP visit card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24060/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: .... We are recruiting an additional 3,000 staff this year and we have done many other things to help patients, such as removing inpatient hospital charges and carrying out the biggest expansion of access to GP care, which is really important in order that people can get health services at the initial point through their GPs. Up to 60% of our population are now eligible for GP cards or...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...nationwide. The third part, which is the electronic health record, will take much longer and we are doing it on a regional basis. This is where the record is integrated into the hospital and the GP so when someone comes into an emergency department, they pull up who the patient is and schedule him or her to go and see Dr. Murphy, who then schedules the patient for his or her scans, all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Advertising (23 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...three themes – healthy eating, physical activity and mental wellbeing. Further campaigns were also delivered to raise awareness of the expansion of the Free Contraception Scheme, the expansion of the GP Visit Card scheme, as well as raising awareness of various public consultations and public notices. The Department's response to the COVID-19 pandemic includes a comprehensive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...that everybody pays in the South, regardless of whether they have a high or low income. There is a caricature of the southern health system. Southerners have no idea there is a queue to see a GP in the North. There is a real lack of information. People are clear that they want certainty in regard to information. That is the first priority. That is similar to previous European...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Will the Taoiseach clarify whether it is common practice for GPs to put medical card holders who are applying to become patients of their practices onto waiting lists rather than giving an outright refusal, thereby preventing these medical card holders from getting the three refusals required to ask the HSE to step in and appoint a doctor for them? Is this issue specific to GPs in Kildare?...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

Norma Foley: ...for a project to provide 3 Mainstream Classrooms, 1 Home School Liaison classroom, 2 SET Rooms and 2 classroom SEN including central activities base. Also included in brief is reconfiguration of GP room back to original purpose. The project was devolved for delivery to the school authority. The next step will be for the school to procure a consultant. This consultant will lead the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess". Persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card are not subject to...