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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Cards (18 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the islands are young and are working and we want many more young and working people on them. We want to create a viability to rear families on the islands. Children up to a certain age get GP cards, but we need full medical cards, and we need it for the parents, for two reasons. The first is it is dearer to live on an island, irrespective of one's health condition. The second is...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (18 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...to Raphoe community playgroup. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív: To discuss the need for a higher financial threshold for persons living on offshore islands as part of the eligibility assessment for medical and GP cards. Deputy Verona Murphy: To discuss actions to address the chronic coastal erosion issue, particularly in south Wexford. Deputy Réada Cronin: To discuss accommodation...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...and put further pressure on the services that have not received the funding or resources they need. Every aspect of our health service faces large waiting lists, from seeing specialists to even getting a GP appointment. Last year, 10,000 children waited more than 12 months to see a member of a CDNT team. The stress and anxiety caused to children and young people and to their families...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...radioligy and therapy for neuroendocrine tumour patients and the stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, or SABR, an advanced radiotherapy treatment.Nine out of ten cancers are diagnosed following on from individuals presenting to their GP with symptoms. This is supported through GPs having access to electronic referral for breast, lung, prostate and suspected skin cancers. More patients are...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...playgroup. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - To discuss the need for a higher financial threshold for persons living on offshore islands as part of the assessment relating to eligibility for medical and GP cards. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss the construction of a new Garda station in Sligo town. Deputy Verona Murphy - To discuss the chronic coastal erosion issue, in Wexford in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Whitmore: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has any responsibility for the monitoring of medical card patients' access to appointments in private GP facilities; specifically, if there is a practice of longer waiting times for patients in primary care on medical cards as opposed to for those paying full fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Properties (17 Apr 2024)

Robert Troy: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the future plans the HSE has for the old GP building on the Galway Road, Kinnegad (details supplied). [16818/24]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: .... Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - To discuss the need for a higher financial threshold for persons living on off-shore islands as part of the financial assessment relating to eligibility for medical and GP cards. Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the need to progress three autism spectrum disorder, ASD, class projects in County Tipperary. Deputy Marian Harkin - To discuss the...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...that way. Will the Minister of State look into this matter? It is causing major distress and pure resentment towards this Government. Tina was told that others have had to get a letter from a GP. Will the Minister of State bear in mind that patients will have to pay for this letter from their GP? Many in County Clare face serious issues with access to a GP.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raise the plight of the Gaeltacht community in Waterford, An Rinn and the whole parish. The GP services have closed recently. The refurbished Garda station is now shuttered and the gardaí have been transferred. There are no gardaí there and now the post office is to close. An existing retailer in An Rinn is looking into a post office contract and was asked to contribute...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Primary Care Centres (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Colm Burke: .... A property transaction approval form was prepared and approved by the HSE property review group in December 2023. The developer is currently reviewing the schedule of accommodation for the GP, and legal negotiations have just commenced between the HSE and the developer’s solicitors. These primary care centres will be a welcome addition to the people and healthcare workers of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...for students with special educational needs, ranging in age from 4 to 18 years. This will comprise 20 mainstream classrooms, along with additional specialised rooms including Art, Home Economics, Woodwork, a Library, GP Room, Dining Space, Sensory Room, dedicated therapy rooms and all associated ancillary accommodation. The accommodation will take into consideration the specific needs of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...school and two 24 classroom primary schools and accommodation, including 14 classrooms across the three projects, for children with special education needs. The campus project also delivered 3 GP areas, a PE Hall in the post-primary school and 13 ball courts in total. The lands to the south of the site have been designated as a flood retention area as required under the campus flood...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...capital project at the school referred to by the Deputy is at Architectural Planning Stage 3 – Tender Action and Award. The project brief is for the construction of a new 16 classroom school, a GP Hall and classrooms for children with special educational needs. All departments, including the Department of Education, have to control the timing and scope of capital projects to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...special educational needs, ranging in age from 4 to 18 years. This will comprise 20 mainstream classrooms, along with additional specialised rooms including Art, Home Economics, Woodwork, a Library, GP Room, Dining Space, Sensory Room, dedicated therapy rooms and all associated ancillary accommodation. The accommodation will take into consideration the specific needs of the students of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...special educational needs, ranging in age from 4 to 18 years. This will comprise 20 mainstream classrooms, along with additional specialised rooms including Art, Home Economics, Woodwork, a Library, GP Room, Dining Space, Sensory Room, dedicated therapy rooms and all associated ancillary accommodation. The accommodation will take into consideration the specific needs of the students of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...special educational needs, ranging in age from 4 to 18 years. This will comprise 20 mainstream classrooms, along with additional specialised rooms including Art, Home Economics, Woodwork, a Library, GP Room, Dining Space, Sensory Room, dedicated therapy rooms and all associated ancillary accommodation. The accommodation will take into consideration the specific needs of the students of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 317 and 326 together. Investment and expenditure on PE Halls is an element of the overall School Building Programme. The provision of GP rooms and PE Halls, at primary and post primary level respectively, and outdoor hard play areas, form part of the accommodation brief for all new school buildings. This is also the case where a major building or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, including an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for adults, and the...