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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is it Mr. Kearns’s sense that people are up for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, that is fine. I have one other question. The Chair will recall that we had Professor Tom Keane before the Oireachtas committee to share his experience with the cancer programme and to give us advice on how we may go forward. I recall him saying that essential to this reform was ensuring that there was legal accountability at clinical and administrative level for decisions taken, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Have the Department and the HSE bought into that?

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: On Friday, 7 October, an explosion tore through the heart of Creeslough. In an instant, the lives of ten people were snatched away and the lives of those left behind were changed utterly. On that terrible day, we lost James O'Flaherty, Jessica Gallagher, Martin McGill, Hugh Kelly, Martina Martin, Leona Harper, who was just 14, Robert Garwe, and his little daughter, Shauna Flanagan Garwe,...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the motion by Sinn Féin, which the Social Democrats will support. It is a timely debate following the publication of the report by the strategic workforce advisory group last month. I also welcome the strong endorsement by the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, of all 16 of the group's recommendations. I assure the Minister of State that she will have the full support of the...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this important motion and acknowledge Deputy Naughten's work in this area over some time. He certainly stuck with it for a long time, as indeed have other Members. Unfortunately, the Minister for Health has not responded to this. It seems as though the Government is hell-bent on sidelining long Covid. As such, any opportunity to highlight issues...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to remove home care workers from the Ineligible Occupations List, following publication of the Report of the Strategic Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants which recommended doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55113/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need to keep bank charges at an affordable level for customers, given the financial pressures facing the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 29 September 2022, when a direction will be issued to local authorities authorising the payment of the Covid-19 recognition payment to fire brigade personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54804/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 448. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 28 September 2022, when a passport issue can be resolved for an Irish citizen living in France (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current steps being taken to increase the availability of multi or non-denominational secondary school places in Dublin 9 and 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55586/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to assist young persons in need of social welfare support at an INTREO office (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55114/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1073. To ask the Minister for Health if advice provided to him by the regional health areas advisory group is publicly available; if not, if he will publish this advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1074. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to implement all 16 recommendations from the report of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home health care assistants; the timeline that he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54801/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1075. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations from the report of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home health care assistants will be included in the updated tender process for homecare, due to be implemented in January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54802/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1076. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to update the home care tender process; if it is still his intention to issue the invitation to tender towards the end of quarter 3 for implementation on 1 January 2023; if the work of a third party (details supplied) in the strategy development stage has concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54803/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1077. To ask the Minister for Health further to the announcement that 15,000 additional monkeypox vaccines have been secured, if he will outline the expected delivery schedule for the 5,000 doses due this year, with the remaining 10,000 doses due next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54805/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular form; the number of patients on a waiting list for each clinic; and the time that each patient has been waiting. [54806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the long-Covid clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular form; the number of patients on a waiting list for each clinic; and the time that each patient has been waiting. [54807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the business case for a multidisciplinary clinic for long-Covid in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54808/22]