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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: We all welcome the moves relating to preventative care. As part of a perfect solution, we would eventually have a sufficient level of public dentistry to provide what is required. I am glad that some people are getting necessary dental care through the private sector. The numbers have obviously jumped. In 2021, in the Louth-Meath area, 77 patients were accepted at a cost of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I fully take on board what the Deputy said. It is very worrying for these children and their parents. Good progress is being made. We have to go further. I am happy to ask my Department to engage with the HSE and revert to the Deputy along with Deputy Cullinane, who tabled the question, with a note relating to category five and give them more detail for Louth and Meath, the counties...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I would appreciate that. The parents are very worried and probably a bit perturbed when they are contacted the HSE, not with a date but to ask whether they have already taken action by going to the North. As much as we want public provision, we need to find a solution for these patients similar to category four patients. I ask for that note as soon as possible. It would really make a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy referred to two cases. If he send me the details, I will ask the HSE to take a look and revert to him directly.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)
Medical Aids and Appliances
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review under way into the funding and provision of post-mastectomy products; when the review will be completed; if stakeholders, including cancer survivors and post-mastectomy product fitters, will be consulted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19294/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I ask the Minister to provide an update on the review underway into the funding and provision of post-mastectomy products, when the review will be completed and if stakeholders, including cancer survivors and post-mastectomy product fitters, will be consulted? We all know the issue that blew up inside this Chamber and on the Joe Duffy show on radio. I was contacted by Alison McCabe from...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: What happened here was that the HSE published national procedures without discussing the issue with me and without proper consultation with the Department. I got a phone call from a fantastic activist who is also a Fianna Fáil councillor, Teresa Costello, asking me what in the name of God I was doing removing supports from women. I said that under no circumstances were any supports...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Hopefully, that will be done as soon as possible. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle allowed a breach of protocol and I thought it was very useful when the Minister got up and explained that this was not going to happen. There is a need to deal with protocols regarding how stuff like this happens. More important, we need to ensure this review involves engagement with consultants, breast care...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Regarding the proposal that was put together, the HSE did consult various stakeholders, including included service users, nurses, health and social care professionals and the Irish Cancer Society. I have also met fitters and suppliers and they asked that their views be considered, which is fine. Of course, we should listen to them and I am sure they will have something to add....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)
Colm Burke: Most of the funding for section 39 and section 56 organisations comes through the HSE. The funding for some of the programmes that employ people did not necessarily come through the HSE and therefore they fell outside the agreement that was reached under the WRC. It is my understanding there are further discussions on that issue and every effort is being made to resolve it. It affects a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)
Joan Collins: Where does the funding come from to pay these workers, if not the HSE?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)
Colm Burke: It is not necessarily from the HSE. It comes from different sources, which is one of the problems.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)
Joan Collins: I thank the Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Dental Services
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is currently no orthodontic treatment in Carlow; when he expects it to be provided; and when it will be implemented. [19782/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: There is currently no orthodontic treatment service available in Carlow. When does the Minister expect this service to be provided and when will it be implemented?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for her ongoing representations, made on behalf of the good people of Carlow, on the health services they deserve. I will provide some good news on the orthodontic lists. For people in Carlow, rather than getting the service in Carlow, the priority is getting the service for these children. I will report to the Deputy and the House some very good news. Over the last...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister for that positive news. It is important. Carlow town is bigger than Kilkenny city. Central Statistics Office figures for the most recent census show that the population of Carlow town has grown by nearly 9% to nearly 28,000, while Kilkenny city has a population of 27,500. The Minister has given me good news, which I welcome, but we need to have our own services. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: There might be some competition with Kilkenny but I take the Deputy's point. She can rest assured that this Government will continue to invest in health services for the people of Carlow. I was delighted to be able to visit, with Deputy Murnane O'Connor, the upgraded ambulance base in Carlow in the last few days. We now want to continue with that progress of the permanent ambulance base in...