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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (6 Nov 2024)

David Cullinane: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application (details supplied). [45478/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Nov 2024)

David Cullinane: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) is supported to avail of the two years of early childhood care and education; if he will grant an overage exemption; if he can stand over the exclusion of this child from the scheme given their physical condition which did not permit the use of the scheme in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (6 Nov 2024)

David Cullinane: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied). [45493/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Nov 2024)

David Cullinane: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that adults have access through the health service to burosumab for treatment for hypophosphataemia (details supplied). [45496/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (5 Nov 2024)

David Cullinane: 1106. To ask the Minister for Health the additional responsibilities and roles taken on or assigned to consultants in public health following the creation of this grade; the number of doctors that have moved into this grade, and the additional responsibilities which came with this new role; the impact of this new post in real terms on work practices; if any analysis has been conducted on the...

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

David Cullinane: It is important for us to tease this out, and I think I am getting there in terms of what the Minister is proposing. I do not want to take away from the positivity of this measure, because it is extremely important. Women will ask us, however, what the likely prescription charge is going to be. For medical card holders, for example, it was free prescriptions, with everything covered, and...

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

David Cullinane: I acknowledge that.

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

David Cullinane: I accept that.

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

David Cullinane: I accept that.

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

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 7: In page 3, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “Amendment of Section 7F of Principal Act 2. Section 7F is amended in section 4A by the deletion of paragraph (c) and the insertion of: “(c) In respect of each of the following applicable 3 year periods— (i) the 3 year period from 1 January 2023 to the end of 2025, and (ii) the...

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

David Cullinane: People before profit.

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

David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister's response in providing clarity on how free HRT will be rolled out. If I am reading what the Minister has said right, there are any number of ways in which this could have been done, including providing free GP consultations, but what the Minister has gone for is free medicines and free products, stating this is the best way to do it. I would like clarity on this...

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

David Cullinane: They are all on the topic of HRT.

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

David Cullinane: Why does the State not just cover the entire cost?

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

David Cullinane: I am speaking about the full cost of the medicine.

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

David Cullinane: Leave the GPs out of it; just the pharmacists.

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

David Cullinane: I have a quick further point. Is there any sense as to what that margin might be? That is the obvious question we are going to be asked. I get what the Minister is saying. I am not interested in the GP side of it. When a woman goes to get the product, the State will pay for the cost of the product and then the margin, profit, or whatever we want to call it is paid by the person. What...

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

David Cullinane: So it is not free HRT

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

David Cullinane: If there is a charge, it is not free.

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

David Cullinane: I have the same question.