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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 370. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20173/23]

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I am grateful to have an opportunity to speak on this important subject, although I do not know whether the short duration allocated for the interventions is appropriate in light of its importance. We should have a much longer debate to allow us to go into the nuances of the agreement, what it was intended to do, what it has done and what remains to be done. I am not going to get into...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I call Deputy Nash. Is Deputy Boyd Barrett not finished? Sorry about that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The clock on the wall says zero.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: To be fair to other speakers, I will bring you in again.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister and the Deputy. I call Deputy Seán Canney.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Perhaps the Minister will conclude as we will have to suspend and come back.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister. I am sorry for the interruption. We will have to come back to it and hear more from everybody then.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Deputy. Do we have any further speakers? The voting block will arise, I am told, at approximately 9.10 p.m. Do the members wish to finish or do they wish to return later? Are we gluttons for punishment, flagellation or anything like that? No? I will make a couple of comments. In the past, I have spoken many times about the fact that I strongly support the line taken by the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That is the way it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister and his colleagues for their attendance. The exchanges we have at these meetings are very important. I will try to be as quick as possible. I have four or five questions to ask. On the annual funding of €495 million being allocated to the enhanced community care programme, of the 96 planned community health networks, 94 have established. In addition, 21 of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I accept that. What I am trying to get at is what evidence has emerged to show how improved the service is in terms of dealing with all of the issues we have been discussing this morning, such as crowding at accident and emergency departments, the loss and lack of GPs and so on? The net impact is the important thing I am looking for in this particular situation. Can we state emphatically...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I thank Dr. Henry. I will move on to my next question. At previous meetings, in front of the Minister and every official, I have raised the question of hardship grounds for the granting of full medical cards. I have raised this as a Topical Issue twice or three times. I received very nice and respectful replies, but no action was taken. There was no action whatsoever. In fact, I can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: I would be glad to do that, but the kernel of the matter is simply that this is not a qualification on income grounds. Each time, those responsible come back and ask the same questions on the income of the patient. It is not about the income of the patient; it is about the emergency nature of the request, which has always been provided for but which is slipping away. I thank the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The population of the area is growing rapidly. The five or 12 additional beds or whatever the case may be were on the basis of an assessment done several years ago. That assessment is now outdated. There is a need to review the situation to ensure we can provide adequately for the future, otherwise it will fall by the wayside. It will be like the medical card issues and so on to which I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Excuse me. Have I been passed by on my own question?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Have we the time for that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Excuse me a second.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle decided that I would be-----