General Practitioner Services

224. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health the process by which a GP can apply to establish a new private practice in a town or community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14240/25]

234. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health the process by which a community can make a request that a new private GP practice be established within their community where they are experiencing a gap in service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14264/25]

235. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health the evaluation being undertaken to establish the numbers of private patients who cannot register with a GP practice in their community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14273/25]

241. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be accepted on to the CAMHS waiting list for an urgent assessment following his GP referral for suspected ADHD; and when the required therapies, outlined as urgent by his medical practitioners, will begin. [14329/25]

250. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Health the procedures required to facilitate doctors from abroad, particularly Ukraine, to practice as GPs in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14376/25]

256. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of GPs in Longford and Westmeath that take medical cards. [14500/25]

841. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health her plans for increased GP services in the Dublin 5 area. [14110/25]

857. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of doctors who successfully completed specialist training for general practitioners in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14159/25]

472. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if ShannonDoc treatment centres based in Roscrea will extend their opening hours on Mondays to Fridays between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. the following morning and on Fridays and on the weekends from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. on the next working day; and the estimated current cost required to extend to those opening hours. [13128/25]

506. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health when she plans to publish the strategic review of general practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13270/25]

1614. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of GP practices that took on new general medical services scheme patients, per county, in each of the years 2019 to 2024. [11319/25]

1638. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health her views in relation to the worry and deep frustration of families and individuals in County Meath, and across rural Ireland generally, in relation to the shortage of GPs and the consequent difficulties being experienced by many patients accessing timely GP care; and her plans to remedy this situation. [11399/25]

1689. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health what supports are made available by her Department and or the HSE for the establishment of a new medical general practice; if she has plans to enhance those supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11639/25]

1819. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health how long the HSE is actively involved in the recruitment process to find a replacement GP following a vacancy in a practise with a GMS contract, if this involvement always results in a new GP to fill the vacancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12242/25]

1820. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of GPs replaced following vacancies in a practise with a GMS contract, from 2018 to 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12243/25]

1821. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of GPs on the GP training scheme from 2018 to 2024; the number of GP’s in those years who signed up for the GMS scheme, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12244/25]

1840. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the action she is taking to expand GP services in Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12346/25]

1841. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the action she is taking to expand GP services in Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12347/25]

1853. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the GP to community health network population ratio for all HSE health regions, broken down into healthcare areas, for the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12462/25]

65. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the actions taken by her Department to ensure the continued existence of a practice (details supplied) in Dublin 1 which is currently facing closure due to provisions introduced in the Finance (No. 2) Act 2003 amending section 1008A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; her plans to support the existence of medical charities operating GP pract…

71. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Health her views on the worry and deep frustration of families and individuals in County Waterford and across rural Ireland about the shortage of GPs and the consequent difficulties being experienced by many patients accessing timely GP care, especially in rural communities. [10113/25]

160. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health if she has engaged with SouthDoc on the closure of SouthDoc, Blackpool; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10196/25]

172. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Health the action she is taking to expand GP services in Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10051/25]

174. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Health if she will consider establishing a 24/7 Shannon Doc service in Thurles, County Tipperary, considering only one 24/7 Shannon Doc service currently operates in Nenagh, County Tipperary for the entire population of north Tipperary within the mid-west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9753/25]

383. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the reason the existence and tax treatment of medical charities operating GP practices is currently not under consideration as part of the primary care review is being undertaken by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10131/25]