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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: This seems to be a common thread in the health service, that there is no collection of data, which is bizarre.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: Okay, and 860,000 people are living with some form of neurological condition. On the issue of early onset Parkinson's, and I raised this at the presentation in the audiovisual room, we have a better understanding of this condition in recent years, but most people would still have that connotation that Parkinson's is an older person's condition, whereas that is not true. It is generally a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: Is the evolution of Parkinson's different in each individual?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: Is there a standard medical intervention in terms of drugs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: Are surgical interventions rare?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: What are the outcomes for those people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: Why is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: Obviously these services pretty arbitrary in terms of their accessibility in the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: One in five?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: That is terrible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: At the moment, of the recommended 100 specialist nurses, only eight have now been employed, which is way off the target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: I think I have run out of time. I will probably have more questions later on.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank members for agreeing to my acting as Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. Apologies have been received from Senator Hoey. I am not sure whether he will be joining the meeting, but I welcome our new committee member, Deputy Michael Ring.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: We extend a welcome to the Deputy anyway.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: He is replacing Deputy Dillon, who has been appointed as a Minister of State. We have business to dispose of before we elect a Leas-Chathaoirleach. Can I take it that the minutes of our meetings on 21 February and 20 March 2024 are formally endorsed and that there are no matters arising? Agreed.
- Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (15 May 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: The next item on the agenda is the nomination of a Leas-Chathaoirleach. So far, the clerk has received one nomination, of Senator Malcolm Byrne. Is it agreed that Senator Malcolm Byrne is elected as Leas-Cathaoirleach of the joint committee? Agreed. I congratulate the Senator. He now holds the prestigious position of Leas-Chathaoirleach and gets to take over for the rest of the meeting.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Colm Burke: I fully understand where the Deputy is coming from in relation to any person having difficulty accessing dental care. It is clearly set out in the statement, "The HSE is required to support the provision of emergency care to adult medical card holders who have difficulty accessing a local dentist." Access to dental care, including for adult medical card holders, is a top priority for the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 10.25 p.m. go dtí 9.10 a.m., Dé Céadaoin, an 1 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 10.25 p.m. until 9.10 a.m. on Wednesday, 15 May 2024.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Dental Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, for being here tonight. I am raising the long waiting list for dentures, specifically for people over 70. I want to go back to a newspaper article in January 2009, which appeared under the subheading: "Dentures will be rationed for medical card holders as part of a wave of Health Service Executive ... cutbacks, dentists representatives...