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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

...a terminal illness with an estimated 24 months or fewer to live. As Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said, medical professionals can certify that. We can get these people's oncologist, treating physician or GP to sign a certificate to certify that the expectation is that the person has less than two years to live. That is why we have stuck at existing definitions and schemes so that it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...for ordinary people. There are two easy things that could be done, one of which is to radically increase the medical card income threshold. The advantage of that is if there is money, then more GP visit cards could be given out to the less well-off cohort. This is not putting more pressure on the GPs by people going more frequently to their GP. It is not shown that people without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...on people's health and health outcomes. Based on Dr. Denieffe's study, have there been delayed diagnoses in households that are in fuel poverty, perhaps because they cannot afford to go to a GP to get a diagnosis in the first place? Do we have any indication of this issue having an impact on the final outcome of such diagnoses as regards terminal illness? Anecdotally, that would seem to...