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Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
513. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will urgently establish a high-level working group on future general practice, to help find innovative solutions, and work collectively to address shortages in the general practitioner-sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46991/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
514. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if general-practitioner training in business planning and management will be made available, particularly, GP training in setting-up and building group practices at community level, and where group practice is not viable or feasible; if the HSE will facilitate the ongoing support of such practices, enhancing practice collaboration and networking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46992/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
515. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if his Department will set up an initiative whereby it would work with the European Investment Bank to set-up a fund to provide low interest loans to groups of general practitioners to set-up primary care centres run by those GPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46993/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
516. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the plans that are in place and being considered to resource rural general practice to attract general practitioners; the measures that will be put in place to achieve this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46994/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
517. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve ICT systems in general practice; if he will consider the implementation of such measures as summary care records, facilitated with a unique patient identifier, to enable an efficient, integrated healthcare system; his plans for investment in e-communication solutions between GP and hospital care to improve patient safety, optimise referral rates and overall, to support secondary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46995/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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Hospital Procedures
Colm Burke
518. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to providing a standardised approach to electronic hospital discharges on a nationwide basis, to be delivered using health-mail which is a secure email source to dramatically improve patient care which would lead to many efficiencies, both within hospitals and the community. [46996/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
519. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if additional resources will be applied to general practices to enable sessional psychological and counselling services to be financed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46997/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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Health Services Staff
Colm Burke
520. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if there will be an increase in the number of allied primary care professionals, including psychologists, community psychiatric nurses and mental health therapists in the health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46998/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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General Practitioner Services
Colm Burke
521. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the establishment of an academic general practitioner-career pathway to recruit, support and retain sufficient academic GPs to meet Ireland’s expanding primary care teaching, healthcare policy and research requirements, and to deliver high-quality evidence-based GP care to patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46999/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Colm Burke
538. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of care workers in both the voluntary and private care sectors yet to receive the pandemic bonus payment for front-line workers; when such outstanding payments will be made; the reason for any delays in payments being made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47088/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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Vaccination Programme
Colm Burke
545. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health his views on the increase in respiratory syncytial virus cases in 2022; when RSV season will officially be opened; the date that vaccines will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47131/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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Medicinal Products
Colm Burke
546. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the total medicines budget over the period 2019 to date in 2022, by year; if he will provide details of the specific amount of expenditure which was allocated to rare diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47132/22]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
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Medicinal Products
Colm Burke
547. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the specific drugs that have been considered by the rare diseases technology review committee of the HSE to date, in tabular form; the outcomes of these decisions; the specific drugs to be considered by the committee; the number of meetings that have taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47133/22]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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Transport Policy
Colm Burke
38. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on stakeholder engagement on the Connecting Ireland Rural Mobility Plan; if he will outline the implementation of the plan going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46182/22]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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Public Transport
Colm Burke
61. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Transport if the public transport fares reduction will be extended beyond 31 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46183/22]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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Tax Code
Colm Burke
100. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to increasing inheritance tax thresholds given the increase in house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46185/22]
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
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Flexible Work Practices
Colm Burke
103. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance if financial supports for working from home will be increased given the increase in the cost of utilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46184/22]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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EU Meetings
Colm Burke
59. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will report on the emergency meeting of the energy Ministers of the 27 member states of the European Union on 9 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45775/22]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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National Broadband Plan
Colm Burke
75. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan in County Cork from 1 January 2022 to the 31 August 2022; the number of premises connected including schools and Broadband Connection Points during this timeframe in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45776/22]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
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Cybersecurity Policy
Colm Burke
156. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the changes that have occurred within the National Cyber Security Centre since the illegal Russian war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33653/22]