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Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: The Bill provides that Irish, British and EU citizens living in Northern Ireland will retain full access to a European health insurance card. Fianna Fáil wants to see full access to the entire European Union and its schemes and programmes retained for Northern Ireland and, as such, will support the Bill. We also want these rights to be reciprocated. It is imperative that people born...

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be guided by the Ceann Comhairle. My logic is that the Bill expressly seeks to give access to EU healthcare to residents of Northern Ireland.

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: In most cases, that means access to emergency services-----

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: -----and, as such, I am speaking to the services to which the Bill would provide access. I will be guided by the Ceann Comhairle.

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be guided by the Ceann Comhairle. How bad is the understaffing? I refer to Tallaght Hospital which serves the constituency the Minister and I represent, as well as County Kildare and a large swathe of County Dublin. An equivalent hospital in the NHS or in Northern Ireland would have approximately 16 consultants in emergency medicine. Tallaght Hospital has four such posts, one...

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: It would mean opening diagnostic suites longer, for which provision was not made. It would mean sanctioning posts for nurses in emergency care that have already been agreed as safe staffing levels and it would mean increasing homecare packages linked to discharge from hospitals, which doctors have told me would free up beds in hospitals and allow people to be transferred from emergency care....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that will benefit from the changes to the income thresholds for the over 70 years of age medical card; the cost in 2020 of this measure; and the four-year cost of same. [41897/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of the GMS prescription charges for over 70 years being reduced by 50 cent to €1; and the full-year cost of same. [41898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of the GMS prescription charges being reduced by 50 cent to €1.50 per item for persons under 70 years of age; and the four-year cost of same. [41899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 390. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of expanding free general practitioner care to children aged six to eight years; and the full-year cost of same. [41900/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Data (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of providing free dental care for children under six years of age including preventative oral health and promotion packages; and the full-year cost of same. [41902/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 392. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2020 of reducing the monthly threshold for the drug payment scheme by €10 to €114; and the full-year cost of same. [41903/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2020 (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the 1,000 therapists, nurses and other professionals in community health services whose recruitment was announced in budget 2020; the number to be recruited in 2010; and when the positions will be operational in 2020. [41904/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 394. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding to be provided for the nursing home support scheme in 2020; the full-year cost of same; and the number of additional places to be provided by this funding. [41905/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Funding (15 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the €97 million for older people services in 2020; and the full-year cost of such initiatives. [41906/19]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Hospitals Building Programme (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if a design team has been appointed for the relocation of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to the St. James’s site; if so, the progress made to date including the funding has been allocated in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41263/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have Question No. 14.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would like to get into the detail. We can go back and forth and make political points, and I am sure we will have plenty of time to do that, but the reality is that we are facing into a winter where a very serious flu is working its way across the world towards us. I heard the Minister this morning quite rightly encouraging people to get the flu...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That is a very nice start to the day.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospitals Winter Plan (10 Oct 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Health when a winter plan for hospitals will be brought forward; the reason for the continued overcrowding in emergency departments during 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41485/19]