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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Pharmacists have shown time and again their great capacity to expand services and provide more and more services to communities locally, for example, vaccinations, repeat prescriptions and in so many other different ways. Will the Minister outline the next steps in expanding the role of pharmacies in community care?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the Deputy. I am a huge advocate for the reform and expansion of pharmacy services and the Government is committed to ensuring people can access as much care as possible in the community including in pharmacy, which will play a very large and expanded role in this. The report of the expert task force to support the expansion of the role of pharmacy was published in August 2024....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: I thank the Minister. She has kind of pre-empted my next question on GPs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am sorry.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: They are under pressure in the complexity and range and the load of the increasing population. GPs in many places are under pressure, especially in rural communities, and medical experts are available beside them with a willingness to expand out and give support. On the common conditions, it is good to hear that the Minister is aiming to get that done in the months ahead before the end...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The first and most important thing is to take the steps forward to get this going. There was an inertia on that, if I may say, until recently. It has now been progressed and there are detailed negotiations to take the necessary steps forward. I would like to see this in place and operational and then be able to expand it appropriately. I have already said, I think, that the list of common...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aindrias Moynihan: Pharmacists have been raising with me the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023 and the dispensing of medication for animals. The implementation of the statutory instrument on that is due shortly. They feel very much that this restricts the capacity to make available veterinary medical products, between the cost of getting a prescription and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

David Maxwell: Deputy Clarke wanted to ask a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I cannot fail to take the opportunity to speak further on the issue I raised with the Minister at committee yesterday around the emergency supply scheme, where somebody from a virtual clinic, or leaving as a previous inpatient of a hospital, has 24 hours to get to their GP if they are a medical card holder and will receive only a seven-day supply of medication. There is a very real...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree completely with the Deputy, and I thank her for that. While I do not have an update for her today - it was yesterday we discussed it - I have instructed my officials to see what can be done, and I will revert to her on it. I have to say Deputy Moynihan has got me. I do not know, and I am going to have to find out. I can tell him about estradot patches and so many different...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (26 Jun 2025)

Questions Nos. 19 and 20 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Hospital Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 21. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has received a copy of a 2017 report into paediatric urology services, known as the Dickson report (details supplied); if her Department was made aware of the existence of this report by Children’s Health Ireland, CHI, or anyone from Temple Street or Crumlin hospitals prior to CHI’s establishment; her views on CHI’s...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: On 19 June, CHI advised the Joint Committee on Health that neither Temple Street nor Crumlin hospitals accepted the Dickson report when it was completed in 2017. My Department received a copy of the report on Friday, 20 June and my officials are reviewing it. I will be seeking assurance from CHI that the matters raised in the report have been addressed. In light of concerns raised in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: A number of patient advocacy groups and parents have for a long time been calling for this report to be published. I urge the Minister to consider that and to consider publishing that report along with the others. What we have seen time and again from CHI are issues around transparency, accountability and a reluctance to release information, and we have had to drag that information from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What we are talking about is the continued need to expand GP services, as we have pushed more and more services into the community and that is where we want services, such as the chronic disease management programme we discussed, to be delivered. It is the case that the number of GPs is increasing, albeit at different rates in different regions, but we have a particular challenge in rural...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Naoise Ó Muirí: I support that, given that there are different models clinicians will want to work under. As the Minister said, not all of them will want to take the risk of setting up a GP practice with everything it entails. The Minister mentioned the chronic disease management programme. That is a classic example of where GPs have helped to make a big difference and it is clear from the HSE's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Colm Burke: In fairness to the Irish College of General Practitioners, it has done a huge amount of work as regards having more GPs trained and putting in place a programme for people who have worked abroad and now want to work in Ireland. It has a two year programme whereas for the normal training, people would have to produce evidence of having worked abroad. One of the things we need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree on the delivery of primary care centres. It is difficult for me to speak in general terms about GPs or other medical staff leaving because there will always be a case of someone who has done that. It is not the general trend of what we are seeing. There is clearly work here. There is the opportunity to set up a business and work in one's own practice. There is the opportunity to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

David Maxwell: I will go back to Question No. 13 and Deputy Carthy.