Results 1-20 of 39 for segment:8865534 in 'Dáil debates'

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

David Cullinane: I thank all the speakers who supported the motion. I also acknowledge that the Government is not opposing the motion but I ask the Minister of State present and the Cabinet to go much further and deliver on the recommendations. As my colleague an Teachta Conway-Walsh said, in reality, given the news today, we need a general election and we need to give the people the opportunity to vote for...

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

Question put and agreed to.

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

Thomas Gould: I commend my party colleague, Deputy Cullinane, on bringing forward this motion. Unlike this Government, he has his finger on the pulse. If the Minister of State were to ask him about 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...

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

Rose Conway-Walsh: An example of how the health services in County Mayo are getting worse and worse is a call I got from a mother today who has been waiting three years for her child to get a diagnosis. Finally, she said she could not stick another night of this and had to take the child to the hospital. I would say she is probably in the accident and emergency department in Castlebar hospital right now....

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Go raibh maith agat. I thank 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...

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

Peter Burke: I would like to thank Sinn Féin 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...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I too thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. We proposed a similar motion four weeks ago. It is important because so many areas, including Killarney and areas in south Kerry, are under pressure for GPs. Those areas are losing doctors. Even more people are being brought into the area but there is no other doctor to cater for those extra people. We are talking about...

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

Mattie McGrath: I too thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It is a simple matter of fact that all services across the regions have been diminished and the lack of accountability is shocking. What happened recently in Nenagh with St. Conleth's nursing home was nothing short of blackguarding. Deputies Lowry and Cahill are both claiming that they got this centre to be a step-down facility...

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

Michael Collins: The Rural Independent Group's Private Members' motion last month called on the Government to act immediately to address the severe shortage of general 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...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: Primary care centres around the country can allow for step-down care. Why has the Government not used primary care centres more often? Who is stopping the primary care centres from being built and why have we not extended the primary care centres that are there at the moment to ensure we can take the pressure off accident and emergency departments? If somebody wants oxygen or wants to have...

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

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. Mo bhuíochas le Sinn Féin arís as an deis cainte seo a bheith agam chun cur síos a dhéanamh ar sheirbhísí leighis taobh amuigh de na hospidéil agus chomh lochtach is atá sé in ainneoin pholasaí an Rialtais le fada an lá. I thank Sinn Féin for the opportunity to speak...

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

Peter Burke: Yes.

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

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State has; it is not pleasant. Somebody related to a person who works with me spent time on a trolley in a hospital in Dublin today and it was utterly chaotic. I have been a Member of the House since 2016 and nothing has changed. Representatives of HIQA attended the regional hospital last year. The hospital serves almost 1 million people. HIQA stated in March last year...

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

Mary Butler: I will get on that straight away.

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

Seán Canney: I thank the Minister of State. Her heart is in the right place where getting things done is concerned, but there are so many issues within the systems that have been set up that it is difficult to find out what is happening. I get many calls from parents who are trying to get their children assessed, into special needs care or into ASD units. Last week, I encountered the case of a school...

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

Carol Nolan: I support this motion, which in many ways replicates some of the points that my colleagues and I have raised recently about local access to healthcare. In particular, I support the motion’s call to establish a multidisciplinary working group on the development of primary care and for the Government to launch a pilot programme in areas where there is a shortage of GPs for out-of-hours...

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: I commend Sinn Féin on tabling this very important motion on public health. There is no doubt there are deficits in public health throughout the country. Some areas are worse than others. There are circumstances as to why there are deficits. which can come down to a lack of recruitment and the retention of staff. A big issue with keeping people in the health service is the price of...

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: The crisis we are encountering is staggering. We see it every day when dealing with constituents who are just seeking to access the most basic healthcare services. What we are discussing 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...