# gp-care - Sunday 22 October, 2017
The Sunday Independent this morning reports that parents could be charged a fee of €5 per visit for such care.
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# gp-care - Saturday 4 July, 2015
The Minister for Health is happy with the progress so far.
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# gp-care - Monday 22 June, 2015
The minister was accused of stroke politics and he was having none of that.
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# gp-care - Tuesday 16 June, 2015
The website for the new system has been beset with problems since it went live yesterday.
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# gp-care - Monday 15 June, 2015
There has been an office in place to administer the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive since February.
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# gp-care - Friday 15 August, 2014
The report singles out user charges as “inefficient in comparison to pooled funding”.
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# gp-care - Monday 11 August, 2014
A modest charge could be applied but no final decision has been taken.
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# gp-care - Thursday 26 June, 2014
Representatives from a number of groups will address the Health Committee on this issue today.
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# gp-care - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
# gp-care - Monday 24 February, 2014
It said it is disappointed by Minister Alex White’s ‘failure to correspond’ with the organisation on negotiations over the issue.
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# gp-care - Monday 17 February, 2014
Alex White raised the issue of nominal fees at the Labour conference, but says he is “not advocating such a charge”.
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# gp-care - Friday 31 January, 2014
The two sides were discussing plans for free GP care for children aged under six.
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The union say the plan is being implemented “by diktat”.
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# gp-care - Sunday 10 November, 2013
Everyone’s talking about a stabbing in Limerick, Remembrance Day and devastation left by Typhoon Haiyan.
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GPs are also reporting “extensive unease” among patients over the withdrawal of discretionary medical cards.
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# gp-care - Saturday 26 October, 2013
# gp-care - Sunday 20 October, 2013
The junior minister said Reilly is the most suitable person to tackle the health budget.
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# gp-care - Saturday 19 October, 2013
Not all families NEED help in sending their children to a GP – but the Government is ignoring that in a cynical ploy to curry favour with the electorate.
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# gp-care - Tuesday 15 October, 2013
The Minister’s been speaking to reporters on his way into the final Cabinet meeting ahead of Budget 2014.
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# gp-care - Monday 14 October, 2013
The plan is expected to be included in tomorrow’s Budget, but GPs don’t seem to know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.
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# gp-care - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
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# gp-care - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
“Ultimately the entire population will be covered by free GP services,” Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil.
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# gp-care - Friday 16 November, 2012
James Reilly unveils a programme of ambitious reform in the health sector – saying he’ll need two terms to totally finish it up.
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# gp-care - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
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# gp-care - Thursday 26 January, 2012
Cathal Magee will appear before an Oireachtas committee today – with questions likely to focus on nursing home care.
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