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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: 119. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on recruitment of Public Health Nurses for the CHO7 area. [48911/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: 120. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1384 of 18 April 2023, 177 of 16 November 2022 and 860 of 22 March 2022, for an update on recruitment of public health nurses for Lucan, Newcastle and Rathcoole areas of Dublin, as promised by his Department; and if he will provide updated information and confirmation of recruitment. [48912/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: I thank the Cathaoirleach and good morning everybody. I have a number of questions. I generally welcome the broad base of the Department's statements. On the rent-a-room scheme, how many people have taken up the scheme at this moment in time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Some 11,000. With this change in legislation, does the Department envisage that that number will go up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Could Mr. Flanagan gave me a breakdown of that 11,000 householders with regard to locality, or possibly of geographical areas?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: What is the tax liability for somebody renting a room out to an individual or individuals as regards the Revenue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: My final questions are about the second part of the Bill as it relates to pharmacists. It is good that pharmacists are broadening their services to many individuals. We have seen that during the Covid pandemic. How does the Irish Pharmacy Union feel about the possible legislative change in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: If this legislation were enacted tomorrow, what would it look like as regards what pharmacists could do after the legislation that they cannot do now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: The unions that represent GPs, I think, would be relatively happy about this legislation in that it frees their work to a degree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: I have never heard of the European voluntary solidarity mechanism before. It is a European mechanism for the regulation of medicines that could become unavailable in certain European countries. Is that the purpose of the mechanism?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Has that happened before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Are there any examples in, say, the European Union of pharmacists being able to prescribe particular drugs to customers? Is there any mechanism in Europe whereby that can happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Can the witnesses give an example of what these medicinal products would be to the average person who goes into a pharmacy to collect them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: How would medicinal products be classified? These are drugs that do not need to be prescribed by a doctor but can be obtained in a pharmacy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: What example would that be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Contraception?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Would, say, methadone come under that guise?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: That could be applied to all drugs, could it?