Results 1-18 of 18 for gp speaker:Thomas Byrne

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Thomas Byrne: A robust general practice and GP out-of-hours service is essential to the delivery of our primary care health service. GP out-of-hours co-operatives are largely private organisations. However, since MIDOC out-of-hours ceased operations on 31 December last, the urgent out-of-hours GP service in the area, which was previously run by MIDOC, has been run by the HSE. The service provides...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Thomas Byrne: ...important. It is reassurance for the Senator's constituents in Longford. Despite the decision of the private company MIDOC to cease trading, there has been no disruption to the urgent out-of-hours GP services in the midlands. The HSE has been managing and will continue to manage the provision of out-of-hours urgent GP care in the area previously served by MIDOC. This arrangement will...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Thomas Byrne: ...and conditions for those working in the sector and prevent fee increases for parents. The eligibility criteria for the universal childcare subsidy is being extended to all children aged up to 15. The budget will extend GP care to six- and seven-year-olds. There will be increases in maternity and parental leave payments, and parent's benefit will be extended to give seven weeks' cover. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (11 Nov 2020)

Thomas Byrne: ...out by the end of this month. On the two to 12 years of age category, the programme is ongoing and I use this opportunity really to encourage parents who have not yet done so to contact their GP or pharmacist to arrange a vaccination. The last thing parents want is a child who could have been vaccinated against flu coming home with flu-like symptoms and the whole family having to...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Staff (15 Nov 2017)

Thomas Byrne: The bottom line is, whether or not people are appropriately referred, in every case they are referred by their GP, so presumably a GP deems it necessary that they be put on the CAMHS list. Has the Minister of State intervened to take people off the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, list because a general practitioner, GP, was wrong? Has he put himself in a position to do...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Thomas Byrne: ...with this issue but he has made it a public locally and, I suspect, nationally, mainly to get assistance for people and to clarify what help is available when someone presents at our hospitals or GP services with a mental health crisis which could be a matter of life and death. What treatment is available? While the centre in Drogheda is welcome, the day centre in Navan, which was to...

Seanad: Tackling Obesity in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ..., a child with suspected cancer and a family history of melanoma was told no dermatologist was available in Temple Street Children's University Hospital. The family was told to check with the GP if they had further concerns as the hospital could not give them an appointment. I wrote to the chief executive saying, "Surely there was some mistake". An appointment was given three days...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...included some very wealthy people. However, the threshold has been reduced dramatically since then, meaning many people over 70 on low to average incomes do not qualify for a medical card and did not qualify for a GP card before this Bill. Many of them have lost medical cards since the thresholds were brought in. Now they will all, including the super-wealthy, get free GP care. That is...

Seanad: Health Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Statements (27 May 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...prospect of HIQA inspection. The Minister of State may recall that I raised a matter on the Commencement debate some time ago concerning the HSE's absolutely appalling treatment of an individual. This person's GP had diagnosed him as having an intellectual disability but the HSE denied this was the case. There is sometimes a need to ease up on the bureaucracy and take a slightly more...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Health Services Provision (20 Jan 2015)

Thomas Byrne: ...unfair. How can this State arbitrarily decide that Mr. Duggan is different from those already being given the medicine by the State? How are these decisions made? May I quote from Mr. Duggan's GP, Dr. Oliver Lynn?

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2013)

Thomas Byrne: .... All the studies show this. We need a debate on the issue of fairness. The Labour Party has failed abysmally in the fairness test. Its members may boast, as they have been doing, about €37 million being set aside for childhood GP cards, but the Government is taking €390 million through increased charges in respect of medical cards. That is not fair. I reiterate a point...

Seanad: Budget 2014: Statements (15 Oct 2013)

Thomas Byrne: ...does not have a clue about what is going on. The Labour Party should investigate what is happening before it attempts to deny that assertion. Many of the children who will receive the under-five GP card will in the process lose their medical cards because the overall cuts to medical cards are far greater than the allocation for GP cards. The Senators opposite shook their heads two years...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Thomas Byrne: People were promised free GP care time and time again.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2013)

Thomas Byrne: ...Party. This was not just a pre-election promise but one that was made repeatedly in official statements from Ministers and the Government. That promise was on progressing the introduction of free GP care. The Government made a specific commitment to introduce free GP care for those on the long-term illness scheme. Lest we forget, people on the long-term illness scheme have conditions...

Seanad: Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Second Stage (26 Sep 2012)

Thomas Byrne: ...in the past number of years, despite some faults. Many of the Minister's promises remain unfulfilled. Fine Gael Deputies in my area are going around with leaflets boasting about the new GP card for long-term illness but nothing has happened in that regard. There were promises relating to a regional hospital before the last general election but nothing has happened in that regard either....

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)

Thomas Byrne: ...on health policy. He is a doctor. We thought he had all the answers to the problems due to his experience as head of the Irish Medical Organisation and as a practising general practitioner, GP. Why does he need more advice? I thought he knew everything but it turns out that he does not and needs advice. It is shameful and pathetic that the main public battle the Minister for Health is...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)

Thomas Byrne: ...for a debate on this issue because I am not convinced it is entirely an issue of capacity. In some cases it seems to be maladministration. I refer to the case of a person who was referred by her GP to an accident and emergency department for a routine procedure and was informed she would have to stay overnight to await the procedure the following morning. I ask why that person could not...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011 [Dáil]: Second Stage (26 Jul 2011)

Thomas Byrne: ...about health issues and incinerators. It has been proposed that an incinerator be developed at Nobber, County Meath, which is the home village of the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee. The local GP is one of the foremost opponents of the proposal in Nobber. He has made a strong argument against it on health grounds. We should listen to the arguments of those who come from a medical...