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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I do know indeed. I have another case in my constituency of a child who is 17 and is about to age out of the process but is yet to receive an assessment.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department has a substantially increased budget for this. The Minister announced an additional 100 posts and then another 80 posts, 24 of which were to be allocated to my area. I appreciate Ms O'Connor cannot speak about the 24 posts but how many of the 180 have been filled?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Funding is not the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Assistant psychologists were going to be attempted to be used to try to help. Will Ms O'Connor tell me more about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How quickly can that be done?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I appreciate the recruitment challenge but there is a sense of ongoing drift. Again, on the timely assessment for the child who is five years and has waited 26 months for assessment or the child born today who will be identified as having a difficulty, under the new process Mr. Reid is developing with the Minister now, what is the interim solution and when will we have a timeline for the new...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Ms O'Connor give me a ballpark? Is it a year, three years or three months?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Why would the priority be to reassess children under that system rather than prioritise children who are growing up with difficulties not being addressed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: And that is a priority because of what exactly? What is the pressure there making it more of a priority than assessing children?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Yes, fine, but what is it in the court ruling that says that must be prioritised over other things, or is that the HSE's interpretation of it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: What about those other children who have not yet had an assessment of need who also have an entitlement and who did not fall under the category of the High Court ruling?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: It is both. That is exactly my point.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My difficulty with the chronological approach is that it just creates further delay for the children at an early stage now and creates more difficulties for them. Again, does this have to be either-or? Can this be both?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (Resumed)
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2020 (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: When a parent points out that an assessment has not taken place and the HSE says it has, do the officials think we can respond in a cultural way in future to what parents are saying?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 35. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the work that is underway to establish appropriate care practices for persons particularly children with long-Covid across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25718/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 144. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a comprehensive update on the work currently underway to assist farmers contribute to the effort to reduce climate-based emissions; the ongoing direct input that farmers have on proposed efforts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the potential impact of current proposed legislation from the UK government on Irish agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26837/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 May 2022)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be supported in obtaining their Irish residence permit card renewal given their current circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27174/22]