Results 81-100 of 1,663 for speaker:Margaret Murphy O'Mahony
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Will the Minister outline his thoughts on the free family planning programme? The committee discussed that matter previously. Several ladies have come to me lately who are interested in getting the Mirena coil but it is too expensive. It is probably good value for money in that there are five years of contraception from it and it controls heavy periods, etc. Depending on which doctor they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Paediatricians made a statement this morning about the unsuitability of direct provision and the impact on children's lives. I presume the Minister heard the report on "Morning Ireland". They are convinced the children will suffer as adults if they grow up in a direct provision centre given the way they are being run now. Will the Minister outline his thoughts on that matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I have spoken to the Minister previously about the GP contract. As the Minister is aware, in Bandon we had few or no applications for two positions. Throughout west Cork, there are pockets or areas that have no South Doc cover at night-time due to the low number of general practitioners available. What is happening with the contract? I know the Minister understands the importance of a new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: That is a sticking plaster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Next is my usual question seeking an update on Bantry General Hospital, the endoscopy unit and the rehabilitation unit. Are we on plan and on target?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: He is gone home.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: There is love in the air now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Another thing under the portfolio of the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Daly, is the home help situation. We speak about it here a great deal. I have one particular case involving a 71 year old lady with a terminal illness. She has been approved for only five hours per week since October but it is not up and running. If the Minister does not mind, I will send him...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: The measure on below-cost alcohol selling that was brought in last year or legislated for is still not up and running. I heard on the radio again - we would be lost only for it - that the Minister is in favour of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Yet, some of the Government partners may not be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It is all on the news.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It slipped in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: We are getting there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: It might get a push tomorrow.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I would like to put my final question to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath. I spoke to him a while ago about the lack of residential places in west Cork. Many elderly parents of adults with special needs in the area are afraid of getting sick or getting old. This is breaking them down. They are afraid that they will be too shook to be able to look after their children or that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: The Minister of State might come back to me on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I want to acknowledge their pain and worry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: I thank the Minister of State.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (10 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the status of dental treatments offered to primary school children in circumstances in which children in sixth class in schools in areas of south-west County Cork have never been seen by a dentist and many are called after they leave primary education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51600/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (5 Dec 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities in receipt of home support hours in each LHO area at the end of November 2019 or the latest date available; the number of persons on the waiting list for same in each LHO area; and the number waiting 0 to three, three to six, six to 12 and more than 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [50979/19]