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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: I think a number of Members concentrated on the fact that we have 2,807 GPs and we need 6,000 by 2028, in six years' time. From what we have heard this morning, unless a plan is put in place, we will hardly reach that and it is clear, even with the best will in the world, that it would be very difficult to reach that plan. There were a number of questions about the capacity of the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: You are talking about 9% of those who go on to be GPs, so that is 350 you are saying that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: Will we reach the figure we are looking for if we have that maximum number? If there is a magic wand such that the Minister turns around tomorrow and asks for the colleges to be filled to capacity, can the ICGP do that? Does it have the personnel? Does it have the space to put those people if it had those interns who were available to go into-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: It is doable. Is that what you are saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: For the people going into medicine and the graduates, it is a long time to go through a course without an income. Is that an area we should be looking at in the context of supports? The cohort going into medicine in Ireland in the 21st century either has to have money or has to know someone who has money to get into medicine. Is that not the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: The question I am asking is what additional supports we need to give those graduates going through the system. We have had people talk about student nurses. Trying to get accommodation if going to college is a huge barrier to people. I am asking what happens if they do not have money. Dr. Farrell says they can borrow it. That is not always easy either. The cohort that can actually go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: I will let me colleagues in in a moment. It is primarily poor people who are being impacted, although I am not saying that people from other backgrounds cannot get doctors. We are training people at considerable cost, but they are going to more developed and wealthier countries while we are taking doctors from poorer and less developed countries. There is something wrong with this. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: Following on from the question of the shared contract, would that work to try to encourage some of the GPs who are facing retirement? Would it be helpful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: Again, we need supports around that. That is why I thought of the shared contract but maybe they would be reluctant to go down that route. There are hours and you are isolated in a rural area. For a GP it is very difficult.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: I will bring the meeting to a close. The committee will follow up on that. We give that commitment. The engagement was very useful. It was illuminating on some of the issues raised. It gives the committee a lot of food for thought as we move forward. We will certainly pursue this as a committee; the representatives have our commitment on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: From today, we can write to find out where it is at. We may engage with the ICGP afterwards about the link person, who will oversee this, in the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: That would be useful. I thank representatives from the Irish College of General Practitioners for assisting the committee on this important matter. We will certainly keep this under review in the context of overall manpower planning in the health services. This concludes our last public meeting of 2022. I wish everyone - staff and members - a happy Christmas. My constituency colleague,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: You are saying that the first point of reference or contact is with the GP. The big challenge, as Members have mentioned, is poverty. Deputy Cathal Crowe talked about poverty and the poverty index in Clare. Realistically, in a lot of cases poor people cannot get a GP, and it has been mentioned that that is the case not just in rural Ireland but also in urban areas. If poor people cannot...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: Do not be worrying. We are not going anywhere.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: There are more Shinners than Fine Gaelers here. That is for sure.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: Where are all the Fine Gaelers?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting a driving test in each testing centre in tabular form. [61724/22]

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: It is a little unsatisfactory. The way we do our business in this House is unsatisfactory at the best of times. The Minister was given additional time to explain his thinking within two minutes. He got another two minutes but it is still a bit unclear. I welcome the fact the Minister moved on the candour issue and that it will go to the Seanad. Like everything else we would like to see...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: Most fair-minded people do not believe that doctors are infallible and they accept that mistakes are made. They are made every day, as we know, but doctors do not only make mistakes, and they make positive calls in regard to diagnosis in the majority of cases. What is galling for many people and what they do not accept is that the truth behind mistakes being made is denied to them. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Seán Crowe: There has been a change in relation to grants for people moving out of homeless accommodation into local authority or approved housing body accommodation. All applications from across Dublin are now being sent to a central hub and are no longer being dealt with by community welfare officers. This has resulted in applications taking up to 12 weeks, or three months, to process and is causing...