Results 1-20 of 20 for gp speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Oct 2023)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss issues relating to GP care in Wicklow. Deputy Paul McAuliffe - To discuss the repair and upkeep of the Trinity Sports Dome. Deputy Gary Gannon - To discuss the removal of two bus stops on North Strand Road, Dublin 3....

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Sep 2023)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: .... Deputy Johnny Guirke - to discuss the situation of some house buyers in Rathmolyon, County Meath. Deputy Pa Daly - to discuss the recent change in policy affecting medical card holders who cannot find a GP. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss what steps are being taken to introduce a public, affordable, not-for-profit childcare model. Deputy Martin Browne - to discuss the...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Nov 2020)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...Irish-American relations; (8) Deputy Marian Harkin - to discuss the relocation of the sittings of Sligo High Court; (9) Deputies Sean Sherlock, Pádraig O'Sullivan and Thomas Gould - to discuss the need for out-of-hours GP services in Cork; (10) Deputy Michael McNamara - to discuss extending the defective concrete block scheme to County Clare; (11) Deputy Aodhán Ó...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 Nov 2020)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...defective concrete block scheme to County Clare; (11) Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss funding for the retrofitting of houses by Dublin City Council; (12) Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss provision of an out-of-hours GP care service on the north side of Cork city; (13) Deputies Jackie Cahill and Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss access to broadband in rural Ireland; (14)...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (5 Nov 2020)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...in Swords, County Dublin; (5) Deputy Darren O'Rourke - to discuss ongoing issues in relation to access to school bus transport; (6) Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss providing an out of hours GP care service on the northside of Cork City; (7) Deputy Bríd Smith - to discuss the education needs of children not attending school because they have vulnerable parents with...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (6 Mar 2019)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...in Clondalkin with the Tallaght service; (5) Deputy Denis Naughten - to discuss a review of monitoring of mechanical grading in beef processing plants; (6) Deputy Eugene Murphy - to discuss supports for GP surgeries in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon; (7) Deputies Alan Kelly and Jackie Cahill - to review the decision to move the An Post office from Liberty Square to Thurles Shopping...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (6 Feb 2019)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...core funding for the Irish Deaf Society; (5) Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin - funding for Rath national school, Ballybrittas, County Laois; (6) Deputy Dara Calleary - the urgent need for clarity on the provision of GP services in Bangor Erris, County Mayo, as the existing GP has accepted a position elsewhere in the HSE; (7) Deputy Mattie McGrath - the closure of Clogheen post office in County...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Oct 2018)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...and Environment to discuss the future of the Donegal post offices under threat of closure as the appeals mechanism fails to reopen some post offices; (15) Deputy Peadar Tóibín - to discuss the crisis in the GP system; and (16) Deputy Mick Wallace - to discuss reports of an increase in attacks on sex workers. The matters raised by Deputies Robert Troy, Pearse Doherty and Eamon...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (3 Oct 2018)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...O'Dowd - to discuss the HIQA report on handling complaints of abuse and engagement with State agencies; (7) Deputy John Brassil - to discuss changes to illness benefit claim forms and the engagement with GP representative bodies; (8) Deputy Charlie McConalogue - to discuss fair beef prices from factories at today’s beef forum meeting; (9) Deputy Seán Crowe - to discuss capacity...

Topical Issue Matters (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...of the N2 road as a national route; (3) Deputies Louise O'Reilly and David Cullinane - the withdrawal of the appeal in the recent consultants' contracts case; (4) Deputy Jackie Cahill - ongoing GP concerns which impact on accident and emergency services; (5) Deputy Michael D'Arcy - the IDA's intention to provide a property for FDI investment for Wexford town; (6) Deputy John Curran - the...

Topical Issue Matters (1 Feb 2017)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...the funding of Scouting Ireland; (9) Deputy Brian Stanley - the future of Bord na Móna plants at Kilberry in County Kildare and Cuil na Móna in County Laois; (10) Deputy Jackie Cahill - the ongoing GP concerns which impact on accident and emergency services; (11) Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin - a request for a statutory inquiry into the investigation of a case, details supplied; (12)...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (14 Jan 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...Defence Forces was 32. The Minister has just stated that this figure now stands at 28. Much more significantly, figures provided by the then Minister, Deputy Shatter, indicated that 45 private GP practices provided services to the Defence Forces in 2012 and that these accommodated 36,000 visits during that year. The cost to the Exchequer in this regard was €1.4 million. In 2011,...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary)
Vote 36 - Defence (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...plus three or four new members. I understand the complement of doctors stood at 32 at one stage. I further understand that the Department has contracts of one sort or another with in excess of 30 GP practices throughout the country. Defence Forces staff are among the healthiest and fittest in the State and the Minister referred earlier to his commitment to ensuring the people who are...

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...difficulties caring for their sick children around the clock. Why is the Government on the one hand apparently committed to the universality of health care and to introducing something we all welcome - namely, free GP care for children aged under six - while at the same time it is not allowing children with life-limiting conditions to have medical cards? The Government stands indicted...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Family Clinics (6 Nov 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister's predecessors made decisions about the orderly wind-down of this service. A survey by local people of the GP services, many of which I know, indicate that they cannot accommodate the number of people involved, which is more than 1,000. The Minister's decision is wrong. A duty of care rests with the GP who provides the service in the Curragh and the Defence Forces. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Family Clinics (6 Nov 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...live on the Curragh. He will force them out into a primary care sector in the greater Kildare area where the numbers involved cannot be accommodated. The families affected have already surveyed GP services available in the wider community and know that no existing service has the capacity to take on the 480 families in question, or over 1,000 people.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Nov 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 1198. To ask the Minister for Health if he will act on the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding GP cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46778/13]

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Oct 2013)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...and morally. The HSE should be embracing these parents and supporting them to look after their child. Instead, parents are receiving cold letters from the HSE in relation to applications for medical card-GP visit card; letters that make no mention of the child, and boldly state that "Your application will be considered closed unless information is received to support your application...

Suicide Prevention: Statements (7 Apr 2011)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...to experience depression relatively late in life and, with the encouragement of his wife, had sought help. However, the prospect of going into hospital to seek medical help as recommended by his GP was so disturbing to him that eventually he took his own life.Commenting afterwards, his wife remarked he would have felt no shame had he needed treatment for heart failure, cancer or any other...

Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2007)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...be needed. I am proposing the following suggestions in this regard. First, the Minister should consider the introduction of tax benefits like those for nursing homes, to be offered to groups of GPs, with a combined list size that is sufficient to fulfil the required numbers for a primary care team. These GPs would then proceed to develop primary care centres with both GP surgeries and...