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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: Once again, I take the opportunity to raise a constituency matter with the Minister. It relates to Youghal, County Cork, my home town and new capital developments there. I am really delighted with the progress that has been made under the HSE capital development plan. I worked very hard with the Minister and Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on delivering a new community nursing unit and a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his powerful and relentless advocacy of healthcare services for the people in his constituency, including Youghal. He has raised the ambulance training college with me probably every week over the past few years. I am delighted to be able to confirm in the Dáil today that the St. Raphael's site in Youghal is the preferred location for the permanent ambulance...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I welcome that. I am delighted there has been progress since we last spoke about this matter. I met the Minister in his office with departmental officials about this, and it is something we have been working on together. Youghal, as a town, has taken a hammering historically. There were 4,000 people directly employed in traditional industries there and Kodak flash cameras were made there....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I would be delighted to join the Deputy in Youghal and very happy to look at the site. The ambulance service is working with HSE estates to identify an interim solution for 2025 because we want this up and running. That is good news because it means the HSE can begin hiring the staff. We have a preferred site, St. Raphael's, and there is a final process and work that goes on; however,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

James O'Connor: I am very pleased with that information. I am delighted to hear that the Minister will be in Youghal and about the difference the capital development will make. I recognise the contribution the ambulance service makes to our community. It is under huge pressure, as its staff tell me. Above all else, the new facility will bring a new generation of young people into the service, making a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I call the Aire.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I think we are good.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2024)

Is féidir teacht ar Cheisteanna Scríofa ar www.oireachtas.ie. Written Answers are published on the Oireachtas website.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I agree with a lot of that. To be clear, it is not the case that we are telling people things will get better in the future. I am saying clearly that our healthcare professionals have made remarkable progress already. For example, with regard to cataract services, when this Government came in, the average waiting time for cataract treatment in Dublin, in the Deputy’s constituency...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister is aware and understands this issue. He is at the coalface of it, as are the patients. It is about bringing the two sides closer together. I am aware the Minister realises the urgency of the situation. I know a patient who had cataract problems and was on a waiting list but could not wait because he was blind. He lived alone and he was blind. He could not drive,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: First, I absolutely do not have an issue with using private care as a short-term means to get public patients faster care. We have used the NTPF as part of our waiting list action plan for the past four years and it has been highly effective in getting public patients care. While we should be building a public health service which does not rely on private care, I have no issue with using...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)

Question No. 10 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Bogfaidh muid ar aghaidh go dtí an chéad ceist eile as na Teachtaí atá i láthair, is í sin Ceist Uimh. 11 in ainm an Teachta Duncan Smith.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Pharmacy Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 11. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on negotiations to increase fees for dispensing for pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39357/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: There are ongoing negotiations on fees for pharmacy dispensing. In the context of the budget and the recent announcement, I am seeking an update on those negotiations and where they are going.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his ongoing advocacy and work in this area. The budget contained very good news for progress in this area. I have allocated full-year funding of €50 million for these negotiations. There would be €25 million available next year on an assumed commencement date of, let us say, July 2025. There is, however, full-year allocation of €50 million. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: I agree with the Minister that pharmacists are all of those things. I am sure he will agree that they are also highly trusted in the community. The great potential of unlocking more community care that is in situ and close to where people live is an aim of both the Minister and me. The funding allocation is welcome but now the negotiation fee must be addressed. Before the financial...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It would not be helpful to set out the State’s negotiating position. What I have said to the IPU and my officials is that everything is on the table. The Government has put €50 million on the table this week, which is a sizeable amount. Of course, the IPU will say it is not enough and will want more. It is a sizeable amount, however. Everything can be discussed in the round...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: A lot of the discussion among pharmacists concerns the volume of administration and paper-based work they must do. We had a debate last week – I brought this issue up in my budget discussions - about the move towards electronic health records and, more generally, towards an e-health model. We need to see that in the pharmacy sector as well. Pharmacists operate in a private retail...