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Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I acknowledge the different initiatives the Minister has been undertaking for women's health. The funding and access he has already been putting in place for Cariban is proof of this and demonstrates the commitment. As the Minister outlined and as so many people have been raising with me, there are these difficulties. Having timely and affordable access is so important. As the Minister is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: For women to be able to access Cariban via their GPs would be so much more affordable, practical and accessible than going through consultants. I am glad the Minister is taking steps in this direction. It is so important that this is followed through on and this type of access is created. I understand that a number of different drugs offer the same benefits and that the market...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 93. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department are taking to ensure our competitiveness in securing medicines that are currently experiencing supply issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7670/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Many pharmacists and members of the public seeking to fulfil prescriptions are finding time and again that the various different drugs are not available. There are supply issues which are causing a need for a switchover from one product to another, if it is possible for people to get these products at all. While there are always similar issues, the situation seems to be much more intense...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: There is nothing unusual about different supply issues, but it is so much more intense now in respect of the breadth, number and range of drugs under pressure, for various different reasons, being so much wider now than what it would have been in other years. Many pharmacists tell us they have seen different issues over the years. Regarding the steps that would need to be taken, there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I must take the Minister up on the point that it does not seem to be affecting us worse than other places. Given all the different causes we are hearing about, whether Covid or the war or various others, we would expect that to be impacting across the board. Brexit was expected to impact access to medication in the UK, yet there are medications available in the UK market that are not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Medicinal Products (16 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: -----people end up having to go for GP appointments to get a prescription as a result. We need to look across the board and at all options.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cybersecurity Policy (14 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his engagement with all third level institutions in view of the recent cyber breach at Munster Technological University, MTU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6941/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (14 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the current review and appeal process by third level institutions participating with the higher education access route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6942/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: There are one or two brief points that I would like to ask the panel about. I thank the witnesses for their various contributions on the report. I would like to ask briefly about PRSI for pensioners and also child benefit and child poverty. Chapter 9 focuses on child benefit as it is and on whether it should continue to be a universal payment. There is also the child allowance that a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank Ms O'Brien.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I am interested in the group in the middle who are not qualifying for any level of social welfare. Many of them are under pressure because they are travelling long distances for work or are under pressure to pay for housing and travel, etc. I am interested to see if there is some way of supporting them and their children. I am interested in whether there are particular thoughts on that. ...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Dr. O'Connor referred earlier to PRSI on earned income and on unearned income, and he made the distinctions on that. That unearned income, whether it is from rent or whatever, is coming to the pensioner who has generated and earned it by working throughout his or her life to create it and paid the tax on it. I am trying to figure out why there would be a distinction there and they would be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank Dr. O'Connor.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Fuíolluisce Poiblí sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Fearaim fáilte roimh ár n-aíonna agus gabhaim buíochas leo as a gcur i láthair. Tá an fhadhb chéanna againne i gceantar Gaeltachta Mhúscraí chomh maith. Tá easpa córais séarachais i mBéal Átha an Ghaorthaidh agus tá sé sin ag cur isteach ar thithíocht mar nach bhfuil deis ag daoine a bheith ina...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Seirbhísí Fuíolluisce Poiblí sa Ghaeltacht: Plé (15 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Aithním an ciste atá Máirín Ní Choisdealbha-Seoige ag caint faoi. Bhíomar féin á úsáid i gcomhair scéim na bóithre áise, do chórais uisce agus do shéarachas. Ag an am sin, mar a luadh, bhí baint ag an gcomhairle contae leis an gciste toisc go raibh sí ag déanamh na hoibre go minic. An mbeadh Uisce...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis na finnéithe chomh maith. I thank the witnesses for attending and for their statements. I will keep my contribution short and tight. I will ask for the witnesses' views on two issues. I would be interested to hear their views on the recommendation that pensioners should continue to pay PRSI. Second, how do the witnesses feel the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: Before Dr. McDonnell moves on from child benefit and the size of it, I have another question. The universal payment is made in respect of every child. The aim is to try to tackle child poverty with the means-tested portion, the top-up or whatever we want to call it. Is that extra payment at the lower end somewhere on the same scale as the flat rate, or would the maximum be some proportion,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: That would be on top of the child payment alone. I imagine that those on other payments, such as jobseekers allowance, would get the child allowance as well.