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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: Are many other vaccines being provided? If there are not, should pharmacists be providing more? Is there any engagement with the Department to scale up provision of vaccine facilities and services within pharmacists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: What about the HPV vaccine? Are any pharmacists providing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: It is a no-brainer. I watched Dr. O'Dwyer's earlier engagements from my office about the chief pharmaceutical officer in the Department of Health. It is mind-boggling that this position has not been created. It would certainly help to advocate within the Department for the kinds of areas where pharmacists could easily scale up and assist. I have another question. A lot of primary care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: Are there any figures for the number of primary care centres with pharmacists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I am interested, because primary care centres are great and very welcome. However, sometimes they displace other businesses. For example there might be two well-established pharmacists in a town when a new primary care centre opens, which includes a pharmacist. It is quite unfair and I think the IPU should take a position and lobby on behalf of the existing pharmacists. In some cases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: Is the serious challenge with rural GPs with some villages and towns ending up with no GP having a serious impact on the local pharmacy? Have pharmacies had to close as a direct result of the GP service no longer being available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: Is there a challenge with pharmacists in rural areas in terms of their survival in the first instance and with younger pharmacists not choosing to live in rural areas? Is a challenge coming down the tracks for rural pharmacy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: We should now engage in a formal process with the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I commend Deputies Shortall and Hourigan on an excellent motion that makes complete common sense. Regarding medications, some branded medications are quite expensive but there are alternatives that are far cheaper. If a prescription is written for a specific drug, and if there is a cheaper alternative available, is there any scope for pharmacists to be able to facilitate people getting...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Digital Accessibility Grant (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I commend Senator McGreehan on tabling an absolutely outstanding Commencement matter. If such a scheme was in place, it would transform the lives of people with vision impairments. I was quite disappointed the then Minister of State, Deputy English, was not able to facilitate this when I organised a meeting. I organised another meeting last week with the Minister of State at the Department...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Services (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I thank the Senator for a very practical and sensible Commencement matter.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Services (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State. Before I call on Senator Ward to ask a supplementary question, I would like to welcome a group from St. Mary's school in Arklow, County Wicklow, to the Public Gallery. I hope that they have a very enjoyable day in Leinster House and find it not just enjoyable but informative as well.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Passport Services (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, for attending the House. I thank Senator Ward for his Commencement matter.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I want to acknowledge the role of the Leas-Chathaoirleach in remembering our flag and the super work he has done in that regard over the years. It is critically important that people understand the background to it. I was at the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, BIPA, yesterday. It was a special meeting to commemorate the Good Friday Agreement and there was a lot of positivity and hope...

Seanad: Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: The Minister is very welcome to the House with what is one of the most important Bills that we will put through during this term. We have had Covid emergency legislation, and that was important, but this is critically important. That there was agreement to change the name of the Bill to the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill was very important because the Title...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: Our group supports the Order of Business as outlined by the Leader. I welcome the Bulgarian ambassador and wish her every joy and happiness in celebrating Bulgaria's national day. I acknowledge the great friendship that exists between our two countries. May it continue and flourish. It is also great to see the British ambassador, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Wilmshurst here again. We work very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: I thank Dr. Burke for attending and for her work over the years in supporting, in particular, the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare, which was chaired by Deputy Shortall. Can Dr. Burke understand why Ms Laura Magahy stepped down? Did her resignation significantly set back the roll-out of Sláintecare? Has Dr. Burke engaged with Ms Magahy since she stepped down? Can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: Does Dr. Burke think the Sláintecare programme board that has been established, with the Secretary General and the CEO of the HSE as co-chairs, is a structure that has the authority to drive it forward? Does she have more confidence in that structure?