Results 1-20 of 43 for gp speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...; 82% said they "always" or "often" felt worn out by the end of the day; 69% said they "always" or "often" felt exhausted at the thought of another day at work; 25% said they had to attend their GP or another healthcare professional as a result of work-related stress in the previous 12 months; and 65% said they had experienced verbal abuse or threatening behaviour in the previous 12...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for the reimbursement of pyridoxine/doxylamine, whose brand name is Cariban in Ireland, for women with hyperemesis gravidarum to require a prescription from a consultant obstetrician, rather than a GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61689/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for Health the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital; the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist when a referring GP submits an urgent request at the same hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51430/22]

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Association in my area had a SLAPP taken against it because it sought a judicial review against a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for a strategic housing development by Atlas GP Ltd., a developer owned by Pat Crean of Marlet Property Group. This information is in the public domain and has been widely reported. That case has been taken against eight members of the...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., one needs qualified people to do that, and we do not have the qualified people. That is the problem. It starts at primary care. If a young person is having difficulties, he or she goes to the GP. What does the GP do? Effectively, there are no primary care services to which the young person can be referred. We do not have enough psychologists. We do not have psychology departments...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise an urgent matter. This Friday, several hundred patients will lose their GP in the Monkstown Farm area of Dún Laoghaire because there is a rule, of which I was previously unaware, that GPs are compulsorily retired when they reach the age of 72, even if that retirement is against their will, as it is in this case. They wish to continue serving their patients but are no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach intervene to ensure that hundreds of people do not lose their GP because of this ridiculous and arbitrary rule?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a pretence about vaccine distribution as well. I happened to get a text just now from a woman in my area who lives in Blackrock but whose 88-year-old father lives in Donaghmede. He went down to the GP's clinic this morning looking for his vaccine. He and many other elderly people discovered the vaccines had not arrived there either. Therefore what Deputy Bríd Smith referred to in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Minister for Health the options available to a person with underlying health conditions who has returned to Tralee, County Kerry, but cannot get a general practitioner to take him or her on, as no GP in the area is taking on new patients due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44650/20]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to starting work but were told there was no need. On the Saturday prior to starting work, one student nurse discovered she was a close contact of someone who is a positive case. She went to a GP and asked if she should be tested but was told there was no need. She told the GP she was going in to work in a nursing home on Monday and she was sure she should be tested. She was told she...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...been thinking about already in our discussions with Europe. One thing that has been revealed clearly is that our public health system is under capacity. We have the lowest levels of ICU and of GP cover and the fewest hospital beds as a proportion of our population. We have sailed dangerously close to the wind. I do not think anybody could disagree that we need permanent increases in...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...same promises but proceeded to savage the staffing and capacity levels of our health service prior to this public health emergency, to the point where we have some of the lowest levels of ICU capacity, GP cover, staffing and hospital beds in the whole of the western world? Is it not the case that the privatisation and austerity policies that were pursued for the past ten years by those...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...all the obvious practical difficulties have already been presented to the Minister. Unless he has good answers, and I do not think there are good answers, we know there are difficulties in getting GP appointments and that money, geographic location, disability or difficult personal circumstances for the woman involved can be an issue. They are all real practical problems and impediments...

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...first day that she had really felt wobbly. She wrote she could feel the darkness coming. Her mental health is a huge issue and trying to keep everything together was starting to take its toll. She had made an appointment to see her GP the following day. At that point, it had only been five days since her family moved into the hotel. She wrote that she did not know what triggered it...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to the taxpayer of alcohol-related discharges from hospital is €1.5 billion. That is equivalent to one in every €10 spent on public health in 2012. This excludes the costs of emergency cases, GP visits, psychiatric admissions and alcohol treatment services. An estimated 5,315 people on the live register in November 2013 lost their jobs due to alcohol use, and the estimated...

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The doctors of this country said that is ridiculous and that a GP is enough.

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A GP is enough, according to the doctors of this country.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...support and despite the fact that in the past ten days the IMO, the representative organisation for the medical profession in this country, stated medical cannabis should be available on a GP's prescription, not a consultant's, the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, has publicly stated his view that the Bill is no longer necessary and proposed a dramatically restrictive so-called...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...although it may have some side effects, there is no evidence they are anywhere as serious as the effects of drugs already authorised and sold in chemists up and down the country on the basis of a GP's prescription? Some red-herrings have been thrown into this debate. Could the Department of Health confirm that we have stated repeatedly in both public and private meetings, in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...having a prescription? Is there any reason to believe that a higher bar should be set for cannabis-based products? Do the witnesses know of any authorised products that a general practitioner, GP, cannot currently prescribe and that only a consultant can prescribe? They might tell me what those products are because there seems to be a suggestion here that it is somehow legitimate to...