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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, and 8 to 11, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “PART 1 PRELIMINARY AND GENERALShort title, collective citations, construction and commencement 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Health Insurance (Amendment) and Health (Provision of Menopause Products) Act 2024. (2) The Health Acts 1947 to 2022 and Part 2 (other than section 5) may be cited...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Never let it be said, but I am happy to support this positive development. It is an important step forward for women's healthcare. Making products that help alleviate the symptoms of menopause, such as HRT, free to women is a very welcome development. It points in the direction we want to go, which is that all healthcare should be free for all who need it. I refer not only to women's...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: I warmly welcome the Government's proactive approach to this issue because it is something I have dealt with in my work in recent years. One thing I was very grateful for were the specialist clinics for treatment of complex cases. Unfortunately, the law of averages pertains to all issues in life, and the whole issue of menopause can have varying degrees of complex cases. I acknowledge the...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: I will absolutely support these amendments. This is something for which we have collectively called for some time. I will make a broader point that there have been very significant developments over the past number of years in supporting women in menopause, including the establishment of menopause clinics. A whole range of other measures were put in place. The Minister outlined other...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Instruction to Committee (23 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome this motion to allow for amendments outside the scope of the original health insurance Bill. The amendments brought forward by the Minister will, if passed, provide the statutory basis for free HRT, as we have been told. It is true to say that for too long women's healthcare has been sidelined but, thankfully, that is changing. There are still numerous examples of...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They sure are.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----to make things better and they are succeeding. That does not suit everybody. There are some people in this Chamber who want the public to believe we live in a failed state and that everything in healthcare is terrible. Everything in healthcare is not terrible. Things are getting better every year and every month. Are there parts of our healthcare service that do not work for...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: Cataracts.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----but just this week, after years of work, we were able to announce really important progress on children's spinal services. We were able to announce that this year, the number of children waiting more than four months will fall from 86 to 20. I fully accept that it is still 20 too many, but we have gone from 86 to 20 in one year and all 20 of them in consultation with their surgeons...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Why does the Government not have an inquiry?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The improvements I am talking about have been achieved by our healthcare professionals and I acknowledge that. We rightly spend a lot of time talking about hospital-based care but look at what has happened in community-based care, again as called for under Sláintecare. My constituency does not have a big hospital. We do not have a model 3 or model 4 hospital but in my time, I have...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: What about west Cork and Kerry?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: What about Kerry?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Children who were referred to specialist care-----

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: Are we all right? Are we to go blind, is it?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the Deputies do not like the truth.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Michael Collins: Shame on the Government.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the truth does not suit them.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is not telling the truth. He closed down the unit in Tralee.