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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which persons in need of drug rehabilitation programmes have access to same, with a view to reducing their dependency on drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49243/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans are in hand to ensure an adequate GP service throughout County Kildare, given the number of GPs retiring and the existing and future demands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49244/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is intended to ensure the availability of full medical cards for those with life changing or terminal conditions, given the degree to which such families are under stress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49245/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate staffing has or is being achieved at all levels throughout the health services, with a view to ensuring maximum operational levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49246/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the various changes and requirements needed to fully introduce Sláintecare are being pursued at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which access to various medicines remains equally available to those in this jurisdiction, as compared with the rest of the single market in Europe, and at a similar price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49249/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 331. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the network of primary care centres throughout County Kildare in existence, proposed or at planning stage; the extent to which replacement of previous facilities is anticipated; if new centres will reflect the population increases in such a way as to ensure that a modern efficient network is available in County Kildare and throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any plans that may be under way to ensure adequate support is provided to home dialysis-patients in the context of the current energy and cost-of-living crisis to ensure that they continue to receive their lifesaving and sustaining treatment at home and can afford same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49251/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate emergency beds can be provided wherever required but particularly in accident and emergency hospitals on call where ambulances are queuing up while awaiting the admission of a patient; if he will identify the precise steps required to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49252/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister is correct. There is a suggestion that the burden on the group of taxpayers who have been under pressure for a long time should be increased and that they should be punished more. We have all had visits from them in our constituencies.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Now, now.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is suggesting it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Well, that is the end product of what the Deputy is suggesting.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am surprised at the Deputy because he is a nice lad and he should not be making suggestions like that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I can only assume that – this is for the good of the audience and so forth – in real terms, the Minister is correct to say that this is a well-balanced budget and its taxation package is a good and progressive one. There is a cap on it, with anyone earning over €70,000 not gaining anything at all under the proposal. People who are on €50,000 or €55,000...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am of the opinion that the various incentives in Housing for All, which have been referred to, are beginning to tell in the sense that more houses are being built, more people are buying houses and more people have bought houses in the past year. We can dress it up any way we like depending on whether we were in opposition or otherwise. Usually, in opposition, one tends to exaggerate the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 7 to 9, inclusive, have been ruled out of order on the basis that there is a potential charge on Revenue.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Is it agreed that section 13, as amended, stands part of the Bill?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thought we were moving on; forward impetus all of the time.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: To reiterate, is it agreed that section 13, as amended, stand part of the Bill?