Results 141-160 of 10,082 for speaker:Mary Butler

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for the question. The Deputy raises a valid question around people having access to medical cards and doctor visit only cards. Currently 50% of people living in the State have either a medical card or a GP visit only card. It is approximately 50% and I remember those figures from the Bill in relation to private care that we do every year. As to the Deputy's specific...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: It is €13.10 per hour.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputies. I will respond to the point, which was made very clearly and especially in relation to discretionary medical cards. There are currently some 180,000 discretionary medical cards, which take into full account the difficult circumstances in the case of applicants who may be in excess of the income guidelines. They exercise discretion and will grant a medical card, for...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I will hand over to Mr. O'Connor.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 3: In page 11, line 27, to delete “supply.”.” and substitute “supply.”. This is a technical amendment to correct a typographical error.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 4: In page 11, after line 27, to insert the following: “Reporting of information to support the security of supply of medicines 32I. (1) The Health Products Regulatory Authority may require a relevant person to provide to the Authority, in such form and manner and within such period as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister, such information in...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: That is a reasonable request.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I do not have that detail here this morning.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: It was something we discussed last year. The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and I discussed it and I am glad it is being reviewed at the moment. We all deal with people in our constituency offices every day of the week who are finding it difficult to secure a medical card and especially when they have an illness. That is one of the challenges. It is important that it would...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his questions. Further to the discussion we had last night during Private Members' business, the Deputy may have stepped out of the Chamber when I stated that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, had taken on board the comments raised at previous meetings related to this Bill. The Government is in the process of finalising a further amendment to facilitate...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Cathoirleach and all the members who attended today.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: It is a very valid point. For older people especially who need their cataracts done, it makes such a huge improvement on their ordinary day-to-day living when their cataract is sorted and their sight improves immensely. We are running waiting list initiatives at the moment for cataract procedures. I take on board the point the Deputy is making, however. Many people who avail of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 296 and 299 together. As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE recently ended the industrial action which commenced on 6 October 2023. As a consequence, members in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: The Government is committed to supporting positive ageing across the life course as well as to ensuring that older people can continue to live independently in their homes and communities for as long as possible. This commitment is enshrined in the National Positive Ageing Strategy, which provides a blueprint for promoting older people’s engagement in economic, social, cultural and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.