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- 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
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Duncan Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Health what actions his Department is taking to lower car parking charges at hospitals in circumstances where car parking charges are currently at unacceptable levels and waiting times in hospitals can mean that undertaking a CT scan can cost a patient €15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25065/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Duncan Smith: We are bringing up again - this has been brought up a great deal - car park charges for patients. It remains a major cost and burden on sick people accessing our hospitals to obtain acute care. We need to see a strategy from Government that will bring these costs down. I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I took another look into the current state of play when I received the question in preparation for this morning. The figures are as follows. There are 36 public or voluntary hospitals, 33 of which now charge €10 or less for parking. The Deputy quite rightly points to the figure of €15, which certainly can be a lot for parking, particularly for someone who...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)
Duncan Smith: I thank the Minister. That is good to hear. There are different costs in the various hospitals. As the Minister knows, there will be sick people who might have treatments in different hospitals. There is no uniformity to it. I acknowledge progress has been made and costs have come down and I want to acknowledge the work of the Irish Cancer Society and others with respect to their...
- Prelude (13 Jun 2024)
- Prelude (13 Jun 2024)
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