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Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: At the outset I would like to join with others in wishing Martin well in his retirement. His 22 years of service have provided an incredible record of helpfulness and professionalism. We all found him very good to deal with and always very supportive. I wish him good health and happiness in his retirement. I welcome this legislation, which the Social Democrats are happy to support....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to progress nurse prescribing of opioid substitution therapy; the status of the working group set up to examine this issue; the timeline that he is working towards for introduction of nurse prescribing of opioid substitution therapy; the reason for the delay in progressing this policy; and if he will make a statement on the...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Can members make comments now, because we will probably race through the sections?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this Bill, in so far as it goes but it is very limited. The Minister of State knows very well that so much more needs to be done regarding nursing homes. I find it hard to understand why she is only dealing with this very limited number of improvements to the inspection and oversight regime. For a start, she promised that a statutory right to home care would be introduced. That...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I intend to table an amendment on Report Stage. The Minister of State has opened the door on non-core aspects of this Bill given what she said earlier and I hope she might take time to consider that. She has given various promises about the Mental Health Commission taking on that responsibility. It is desperately needed, given the appalling state of children's mental health services. I...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: When is the other legislation on the statutory right due?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the proposed mental health Bill provide for the Mental Health Commission to regulate CAMHS?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I want to make another comment.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine. The guideline of 85 beds is fairly reasonable.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, 84 beds is fairly reasonable but there is no statutory basis to those guidelines. Therefore, they are not a requirement for multinational investment funds, which most of them are now. This is monetising care and the Minister of State and her Government have allowed that to happen over the last four and a half years. The provision of care for elderly people is now much more about...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There cannot be a carrot-and-stick approach to investment funds. The Minister of State should have learned that from the disasters that have occurred in housing.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, a debate would be good but we need action. What is the timeline for the strategy right to home care?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: No, the statutory right to home care.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: With due respect, it has been six years and that nut has not been cracked.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It sounds like we are not anywhere near to having the legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I may do so as well. It depends.