Results 1-20 of 20 for gp speaker:Michael McNamara

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...growing beyond its capabilities to grow. That is creating huge pressures on people already in Dublin or coming to Dublin. Finding a job here is the easy part. Finding a place to live, a school, a GP and so on is much more difficult. There are other areas in Ireland where there is still much scope for development and where development could be carried out more easily but, partly, or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2023)

Michael McNamara: I welcome the emphasis on primary care. There is a great new primary care centre in Ennis. The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, opened it. I welcome that, but there is a shortage of GPs right across Clare and right across the country. It is increasingly difficult, as I highlighted to the Taoiseach, to get an appointment to see a GP in Scarriff. That will be exacerbated by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...Services, IPAS, or the HSE, with regard to this. The Taoiseach will know that medical centres across Ireland generally, and particularly in rural Ireland, are under pressure. There are more GPs retiring than coming through for rural practice. There are difficulties around that. They obviously want to provide a service to everybody in their community, both people who have been there for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...to the situation in traditional medical faculties where people did their practical experience in the hospitals, many people training in UL medical school also did their practical experience in GP practices as well. I understand much of the practical experience in veterinary training in UCD is in the veterinary hospital, which is of course great. For many young vets, though, this means...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...are brought in, treated and discharged. Instead of going into the accident and emergency department in Limerick and joining the large queues of people there, they are sent into the MAU by their GP and treated. Some of them will need to be admitted. An MAU cannot be open if there are no beds to admit people to, so we will need more beds. That is a one-off spending. I mention Ennis...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2023)

Michael McNamara: 1379. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to integrate any planned virtual home hospital services with community care services and GP services to facilitate supported early hospital discharge of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1018/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2022)

Michael McNamara: Can we have some detail on how that target is going to be met? We have a GP crisis which has been going on for a very long time. My predecessor from County Clare, Michael Harty, was elected to this House on the basis of the GP crisis and the fact that the number of rural GPs in particular was reducing. It would not be unfair to suggest that his experience here was somewhat frustrating and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: GPs criticised the budgetary announcements around an increase in the number of GP visit cards, saying that this will result in more visits from the members of a certain cohort. I am not a doctor, but the Tánaiste is. There is a large cohort of people who never visit GPs during the year. By contrast, there is the treatment benefit scheme whereby people have annual access to dental,...

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Michael McNamara: I said people should talk to a GP because I am not a doctor, and neither is the Minister-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: You can get a vet but not a GP in rural Ireland. Like the Minister, I look forward to the plant at Moneypoint becoming a green energy hub. I hope hydrogen will be manufactured there using energy generated by harnessing the power of the Atlantic. In the meantime, it is slated for closure in 2025. The Minister suggested that decision might be revisited given the energy shortages. Will...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...are medical officers in respect of some HSE facilities though not all. It is almost an accident or a curiosity of their history and how they evolved. In some nursing homes there are various residents who are still under the care of their GPs. That GP has a duty of care to his patients but only to them, rather than to the broader community. That is something that is important in the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...I thank the Minister. To be very clear, a student in second level has to wear a mask unless there is a medical reason that he or she cannot do so. If students can provide a certificate from a GP or doctor, that will absolve them from the need to wear masks. Is that correct? Various Deputies, including me, have received information from students who are questioning that.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...TD from 2011 to 2016 and during that time there was a campaign by the younger doctors' division of the IMO, which I think was called "24 No More", and nothing happened. I was contacted by an Irish GP trainee who posted on social media and I think I was tagged in it. She said: "26 hrs later I'm finally finished my shift. Absolutely shattered. Time to get a coffee before I drive home....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: ..., IMO, I welcome back to the committee Ms Susan Clyne, chief executive officer, and welcome Dr. Peadar Gilligan from the IMO's consultant committee and Dr. Denis McCauley, chair of the IMO's GP committee. I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to this committee....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed). (23 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...burden on small crèches, many of which began operating in people's homes as a form of self-employment. We heard from a witness that she was up until midnight filling out forms. It is like the GP system, where the State wants to load all of the administration, insurance, risk and cost onto individuals and get a universal service in return. Does anybody ever think about lessening...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: It is a huge amount of money, particularly in circumstances where, as a former GP, he will know that a viral swab test that is referred by a GP practice in Ireland typically costs about €25. There may be differences - I am not saying there are none - but it does seem like a very large difference. In Vienna airport, and this brings me on to my next question, they are carrying out...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...personnel from this outbreak. It is a huge tribute to them that they are doing what they are doing. If anybody in Clare is listening to the Dáil at this hour, I urge them not to present to their GP surgeries or accident and emergency units if they fear they may have contracted the virus but instead to telephone ahead. I am happy that people are being contacted. I am not happy...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (18 Nov 2015)

Michael McNamara: This issue concerns Shannondoc, which is a general practitioner, GP, co-operative based in County Clare that provides out-of-hours services to cover what GPs normally do during office hours in the evening and at weekends. It is an important service but there have been repeated rumours throughout County Clare of various reductions in Shannondoc services in west Clare, Shannon and elsewhere....

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Michael McNamara: ...or a mortgage and so on, because we are talking about people who are retired. The threshold is still €500 per week for a full medical card for single people. Those who lose a medical card will get a GP-visit card, which entitles them to get free treatment from a GP. If they need further care and they are referred to a local accident and emergency department or a medical...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Michael McNamara: One can still get a vet on site at that time faster than a GP.