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

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Cullinane to move the motion. He is sharing time with his colleagues and has 20 minutes.

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

David Cullinane: I think I have five minutes. Is that correct?

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: You have as long as you like. It is up to Sinn Féin.

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

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: — the survey of the career intentions of graduates of the four-year General Practice training programme, carried out by the Irish College of General Practitioners in mid-2023, showed that over two thirds (78.4 per cent) of recent graduates saw their future career in Ireland; — General Practice is a vital part of...

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

Pearse Doherty: Every day, dedicated healthcare staff do their best to serve patients in their communities, but we can all agree that our health system is under increased pressure and unprecedented strain. This includes local services that are facing workforce shortages and infrastructure deficits. These problems are not isolated or contained. A lack of alternative and primary care options in our...

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: I am going to raise an issue with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. She will have been requested to meet the community in Carndonagh, County Donegal, which has lost day services in the community hospital. It is unacceptable that, rather than upgrade the facilities, the hospital has been relocated, causing serious dismay. There was a packed public meeting in recent times. On a...

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: Local health services throughout the State have come under severe pressure due to workforce shortages, 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...

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

Mairead Farrell: The need for the provision of properly resourced healthcare at community level is clear. The ongoing crisis in our hospitals emphasises the importance of care being available to people at a community level to help relieve pressure on the emergency departments. Part of the plan to strengthen community care is the concept of primary care centres which would support the provision of a range of...

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

Mary Butler: I welcome the 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...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Minister of State very much for that comprehensive presentation.

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: I thank Deputy Cullinane, our spokesperson for health, for bringing forward this motion. The bottom line is that local health services are under severe strain and the situation is getting worse. People in my own constituency in Wexford, and particularly in rural areas of the county, are waiting for up to four weeks to get an appointment to see their doctor. That statement alone is...

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

Pa Daly: There is no doubt that this motion is very relevant for the whole of the State but it is particularly relevant for County Kerry. The primary care facilities in Kerry, particularly in UHK, are under severe pressure. Before Christmas, there was a lot of talk about elective surgeries being cancelled for three days in Limerick. Elective surgeries in UHK have been postponed since 15 December...

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

Dessie Ellis: My constituency of Dublin North-West has a large urban population of approximately 90,000 but it has a severe 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...

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...

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

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

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

Alan Kelly: I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, is in the Chamber to take this motion. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. The issues around general practice and primary care are obvious to anyone who is a public representative. The burden on GPs is so enormous that we need an all-encompassing contract for them whereby they would be provided with all the services they...