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Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: They need adequate community services. They deserve them, but it is also having a huge impact on the health service, with beds being taken up over a long period and people not being able to rehabilitate, get back to work and so on. These are the priority areas. I hope the Minister will give them attention.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

John McGuinness: I will focus on a number of issues that are of concern to me and paint a picture of a health service that is not responsive to the issues being faced by families and individuals. I have raised them a number of times and until such time as the services are delivered, I will not be able to say we have a functioning, efficient health service. That is no reflection on the staff on the front...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 3 o’clock The Minister received correspondence late last year from more than 80 GPs and more than 20 consultants in County Donegal about their concerns with Letterkenny University Hospital. I know he met with them and heard face to face the serious concerns they had. As part of the correspondence, they revealed to him that Letterkenny is a model 3 hospital, but the reality is...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I will not say I listened with amusement, but I listened with one eyebrow raised to Deputies talking about what happened in 2009. You would nearly think the accident and emergency departments closed themselves when we know it was the Minister's party, Fianna Fáil, that closed them. They did not close on their own, as appears to have been suggested. I also listened to the Minister's...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on Sláintecare. I do not know why it was not entitled Sláintecare and I do not know why the Sinn Féin health spokesperson is trying to rebrand Sláintecare. Its strength is that it is an all-party policy. That is what gives it real effect. I think we should stick with that and be at one with regard to what we are trying to...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: I am sharing my time with my colleague, Deputy Alan Kelly. I want to acknowledge and support the Minister's words spoke regarding our international workers in our healthcare service. Without them, our health service would cease to function in any way, shape or form. We have all said it before but it is always worth repeating. However, we have massive issues in our health service,...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: It will be no surprise to the Minister what I am going to raise with him. I welcome his announcement last week regarding consideration for a model 3 hospital in the mid-west. It is so obvious. The Mr. Justice Frank Clarke report into Aoife Johnston's passing is imminent. I hope that the former Chief Justice will actually recommend same. I hope that will help the Minister to make such a...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Seán Sherlock: Before I call Deputy Cathal Crowe, we are ahead of schedule because one of the speakers did not show up so there is a little bit of latitude for every speaker who goes over time.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: That is good to know.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the announcement that HIQA will examine the possibility of a model 3 hospital in the mid-west region. It is so essential and we have had many private conversations on this. I thank the Minister, over the past 18 months, for meeting with Deputy Willie O'Dea and myself one evening in his office. he came down to Ennis and met with the Friends of Ennis Hospital Committee and he met...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: The Government is way behind many of the targets set to deliver Sláíntecare. It is failing in the delivery of universal healthcare and not making any significant advancement on affordability. Medical card eligibility, which my colleague has mentioned, has not been reviewed in two decades. For the majority of people, the thresholds have not increased in line with inflation and...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Mark Ward: The Government is far behind delivering on Sláintecare. Sláintecare's vision is to deliver one universal healthcare service for all, providing the right care in the right place at the right time. You would have to be living under a rock to believe this is actually what is happening on the ground. Tens of thousands of children are waiting for assessments of need, appointments for...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Healthcare for everyone is a cornerstone of a decent society. I am pleased to report to the Dáil today on the progress being made in making this a reality. If you need a doctor, nurse or therapist; if you need a simple procedure or a complex operation; if you need home care or a nursing home, it cannot matter how much money you have, where you live or what age you are. Thanks to...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Heather Humphreys: 1 o’clock As a former Minister with responsibility for business, I am somewhat aware of what the Deputy is referring to. I know the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, ICHEC, does a lot of work in that area. I cannot give the Deputy the detail as to why this has not happened but I am sure there is a good reason for it. I will ask the Minister to come back to the Deputy with...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I have been contacted by a number of residents of The Forest, Ballymacool, Letterkenny, County Donegal. They originally qualified for the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme and were waiting for their home to be purchased by the Housing Agency, but then received an abrupt email from the Housing Agency stating it would not proceed with the purchase, with no explanation. Understandably, the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If the Deputy gives me the details, I will take it up directly with the Housing Agency. The tenant in situ scheme has been very successful, as has the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme. If a house is not going to be purchased, the tenants should be given an explanation for that. I am not aware of the details but if the Deputy gives them to me, I will engage directly with the Housing Agency...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Will the Minister of State give an update on Cherry Orchard nursing home and the planned removal and relocation of elderly and vulnerable nursing home residents? I want to know what status of engagement has taken place and if contact has been made with the families and advocates of late, and if so, how recently. As the Minister of State is aware, the situation arose late in 2023 and there...