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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish it were simple.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: While this is an issue, it is not an issue in all of our hospitals. In the context of some hospitals, the cost of living in the local area is much lower and rents and house prices are much more affordable. However, as Deputy Kenny has said, in some parts of the country, it really is an issue for someone on, say, an ICU staff salary, whether that is an ICU nurse or ICU healthcare assistant....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)
Hospital Overcrowding
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: 7. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) stated that over 604 patients were treated without a bed in Irish hospitals on the Wednesday after the June bank holiday and that this level of overcrowding, which is now consistent and continuing into the summer, at a time when winter respiratory infections are not circulating, indicates that the system...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is féidir linn bogadh ar aghaidh go Ceist Uimh. 7 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny, arís.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: This is the Gino Kenny show at this stage. My next question is about the statement by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation last week on bed capacity. More than 604 patients were being treated without a bed in Irish hospitals last week. That is completely unacceptable and is a continuous thing. We cannot have people without proper provision in our hospitals because that will have a...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: For the attention of Members, I am moving on to other questions. We are finished with Priority Questions. I am starting but some Members are not here. I want to alert the House to that fact.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (13 Jun 2024)
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
Medical Aids and Appliances
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: 4. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given any consideration to funding continuous glucose-monitoring sensors for people with type 2 diabetes under the community drug scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25754/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I wish to ask the Minister about the position regarding the funding of continuous glucose-monitoring sensors for people with type 2 diabetes. My reading of the situation is that this technology is amazing and makes a huge difference to the quality of people's lives. They feel better and can perform better. It is really effective. I understand that a change was made to the scheme last...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the question and for his advocacy in this area. I have discussed this issue with him. Deputy Devlin is Chair of the all-party Oireachtas committee. We met with Diabetes Ireland before last year's budget. I assure the Deputy that this is a matter of great priority for the Government. There are various things we have done in the past few years. One is, in line with...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response and congratulate him on the work he and the Government are doing in this area. I wonder what the cost will be of not making these sensors available to people, particularly if they get ill, end up in hospital or whatever and their quality of life disimproves. One of my constituents informed me that the sensor changed the quality of his life when he...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. The technology is not cheap. The cost of one sensor is about €1,500 to €3,000 per year. They are expensive and, hence, the additional cost to the State would be €200 million to €400 million. If the Deputy is comfortable with sending me on details of the case or if his constituent is happy to send them on, I will take a look specifically at...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his very positive response. To support him in moving forward with this, my constituent tells me that the sensor has to be replaced every ten days at a cost €92.50, or €75 plus VAT. This is, as the Minister stated, very expensive. However, the improvement in quality of life for these people is massive. They do not require hospital treatment to the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Bogaimid ar aghaidh anois go dtí an chéad ceist eile, Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm An Teachta Gino Kenny.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
Gino Kenny: I have mixed up my notes. Does Deputy Smith want to go ahead?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: If Deputy Duncan Smith is agreeable, we will move to Question No. 6 in his name.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Hospital Facilities