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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)
Colm Burke: In fairness to the Irish College of General Practitioners, it has done a huge amount of work as regards having more GPs trained and putting in place a programme for people who have worked abroad and now want to work in Ireland. It has a two year programme whereas for the normal training, people would have to produce evidence of having worked abroad. One of the things we need to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree on the delivery of primary care centres. It is difficult for me to speak in general terms about GPs or other medical staff leaving because there will always be a case of someone who has done that. It is not the general trend of what we are seeing. There is clearly work here. There is the opportunity to set up a business and work in one's own practice. There is the opportunity to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)
David Maxwell: I will go back to Question No. 13 and Deputy Carthy.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Hospital Equipment
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Matt Carthy: 13. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a CT scanner and MRI scanner are located within Monaghan Hospital. [34678/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Matt Carthy: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for his latitude. The Minister may be aware there has been a long saga in respect of Monaghan hospital since emergency and other services were removed by a previous Fianna Fáil Government. Will the Minister help with the evolution and redevelopment of Monaghan hospital by ensuring there is a CT and MRI scanner located on the hospital campus?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Government is fully committed to the ongoing development of regional hospitals, including Cavan and Monaghan which operate as a single hospital entity, with integrated managerial and clinical governance systems, care pathways and support functions. Since July 2020, significant resources have been invested to meet the needs of patients using Cavan and Monaghan hospitals. The total budget...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Matt Carthy: Cavan and Monaghan hospitals might be put together for operational purposes but it cannot be claimed that a service in one is equal to a service in the other. There are 47 km between the two sites. Perhaps that does not seem like much to some people, but if people are living in an area with no public transport and a poor ambulance service, that matters. When the Minister says that Cavan...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Waiting times at Cavan Monaghan are improving a lot. Some 35% of outpatient appointments occurred within Sláintecare wait times compared with 25% in the same period last year, which is an improvement that needs to continue. Some 58% of inpatient day cases occur within the Sláintecare wait times, as do 95% of GI scopes, which is an improvement on 87% last year, and 94% to 100% of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Matt Carthy: The difficulty is that the application for scanners at Cavan hospital is made, as the Minister said, by Cavan Monaghan General Hospital, but Monaghan hospital needs these scanners and as I understand it, the staff there want them. The difficulty is that they have to go through this convoluted process Micheál Martin established that put Monaghan and Cavan hospitals together. What...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sure the Deputy has discussed this in detail with the management group already. I wonder what response he got directly. As I said, staffing at-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Matt Carthy: Deputy Carroll MacNeill is the Minister. I am asking her to ask.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Deputy Carthy is the local representative in Monaghan so I assume he has discussed this in detail with hospital management.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Matt Carthy: Yes, I am not happy with the response so I am asking the Minister to ask.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
David Maxwell: The Deputy should allow the Minister to answer.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If the Deputy would like me to answer, I will do so. The reality is that staffing has increased in Cavan Monaghan General Hospital by 26% but the increase in Monaghan has been 70%, so Monaghan is not being left behind. I look forward to going there and discussing all these issues, including the business cases submitted or not submitted by Monaghan hospital, as I am sure the Deputy already has.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Equipment (26 Jun 2025)
Questions Nos. 14 and 15 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (26 Jun 2025)
Dental Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (26 Jun 2025)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: 12. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made by the orthodontic services waiting list initiative for grade 5 patients; the location and number of successful tenderers; the number of patients it is anticipated will be seen in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33748/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (26 Jun 2025)
Ruairí Ó Murchú: This is a particular issue and there is huge cohort, in particular in the Louth hospital in Dundalk. Those with grade 4 issues were dealt with but those with grade 5 issues, which were more serious, were not. Obviously, the longer we leave this the greater an issue it is. It needs to be dealt with.