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General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: ...the important foundations to building up primary community care but also to take pressure away from our acute hospitals. Again, I welcome and acknowledge that the number of training places for GPs has increased in recent years. However, we also have real pressures in many parts of the country and in many communities. Very often when we hear about a shortage of GPs, people will...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...out-of-hours services in Cork city, he could tell him they are not functioning as they should. The Minister for Health told me on 29 February that he was not aware of any reduction of out-of-hours GP services in Cork city. This is extremely worrying because it has now been proven beyond a doubt that SouthDoc in Blackpool has again shut down. SouthDoc tried to close the Blackpool service...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...Deputy Cullinane for bringing this motion forward. We could deal with the multiple proposals he has put forward, but I just wish to deal with one. I refer to developing a public contract for GPs and launching a pilot programme in areas where there are shortages of GPs for out-of-hours services and leave cover. We all know the issues that exist, including in my town of Dundalk. There...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Peter Burke: ...in for raising this discussion on primary care health services. The Government acknowledges there are issues in delivering healthcare in some communities, including issues regarding access to care for GP services in certain areas. However, the actions of this Government to improve service provision over the longer term will lead to significant improvements in the delivery of patient...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...practitioners across rural Ireland. We are happy to support this motion. This crisis has been escalating for over four years, with recent data revealing that over two thirds, 66%, of rural GPs are currently unable to accept new patients. I will fast-track my contribution because my time is short. I remember not so long ago the position of Dr. Fiona Kelly in Castletownbere. She had to...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...was a union problem. Finally we were told that the new 40-bed nursing home - it was to have had 50 beds but the number was reduced to 40 - will solve all the problems. There is a misunderstanding here that a district hospital is the same as a nursing home and that a nursing home will fulfil the role the district hospital had. A GP stood up at a public meeting to appeal for the second...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Cullinane and his party for bringing this issue to the fore. In discussing the delivery of services, I wish to speak about GP services in places such as the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry, which is losing GPs. If we do not have access to care in our rural locations in particular and if we do not have the requisite resources in those locations, it will be detrimental. I...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...people in the health service is the price of housing. Pay and conditions in the workplace are also big factors in filling posts in our health service. Throughout the country there is a shortage of GPs. There are enormous waiting lists just to see a GP. This never really happened until six or seven years ago. There are circumstances as to why this is happening. I bring to the...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Canney: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion, which is very important. In a rural constituency such as Galway East, which I represent, we can see the lack of services. The first issue is with GPs. Even in the towns they are under awful pressure. I was in a GP practice on Tuesday morning. One of the doctors was not there and there was great pressure on the rest of the staff because he...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...first hit home with me a number of years ago when Fine Gael's health policies really started to impact. A family returned home to County Monaghan and contacted me to say they could not get a GP to take them on. It was the first time I became aware of just how bad the situation had become. I became aware of GPs working way beyond their desired retirement age. They were doing so because...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Being able to access a GP is like having money in the bank. The security it offers a family is hard to overestimate. However, it is too often the case that people trying to find a new practice, perhaps having come to a new area, find it nigh on impossible to do so. Even if you are on a GP's books, it can be difficult to get an appointment. While it was not mentioned much in the Minister...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Johnny Mythen: ...This was well known and well flagged. Yet again, there was no advance thinking or planning on the part of this Government. Constituents have come to me in distress and tears because their local GP was retiring and they could not get another doctor to take them on. Medical card holders, many of whom are old age pensioners, are finding it impossible to find a replacement local GP. A...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Pa Daly: ...out of action for the last three months. Kerry is a county in which there is a high degree of isolation and many small towns and villages are struggling when it comes to recruiting and retaining GPs. Elective surgery services are being offered in Cork and Limerick. That is also totally inappropriate and is going to lead to suffering for other patients and a diminution of services in...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Dessie Ellis: ...lack of medical facilities. This area has been neglected for many years and has been badly served when it comes to the provision of health services. For example, there has not been a single GP in the north and west of Finglas for more than 20 years. This alone should make the provision of a primary care centre all the more urgent. It has been more than a decade since Finglas was...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: ...opportunity to engage with colleagues on the important matter of the provision of primary care health services. Access to health services in the community is essential to people's well-being, with GPs usually acting as people's primary care providers and gatekeepers to the wider healthcare services. Treating patients as close to home as possible is beneficial for patients and for the...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: I am delighted to get the chance to speak on this motion because I find increasingly that people who cannot access a GP are calling in to us. In many cases, they have been living abroad or in another part of the country and when they come home they find it impossible to access a GP. In one recent case, a person with a very serious condition who had been living in England for a long period...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...cross-party basis we ask the Minister of State to meet the community group and find a solution. Deputy David Cullinane, who drafted this motion, has rightly put all of the services together, be it GP, pharmacy or community primary services, as a solution to what we are seeing. The scale of this surpasses anything I have seen in all my time in politics. The Minister of State will know...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague, Deputy Cullinane, for introducing this important motion and giving me an opportunity to raise the issue of serious pressures on GPs in my constituency. After more than a decade of chronic underfunding by successive Fine Gael- and Fianna Fáil-led Governments, local GP and healthcare services are creaking at the seams. We have staff shortages, increased workload,...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ..., challenging working conditions, growing waiting lists and excessively long wait times. This impacts staff morale and undermines confidence in the health service. Local health services and GP services need to be improved as a priority. The lack of alternative care options in the community is placing further strain on our hospitals and their emergency departments. Nowhere is this more...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: ...; and — pharmacies can play an important role in ensuring patients get the right care, in the right place, at the right time; notes that: — many areas are experiencing difficulties in General Practitioner (GP) capacity, and this is leading to longer wait times; — not all trainee GPs want to pursue independent practice and there is a role for directly hired GPs;...