Results 20,761-20,780 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Out of how many?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Has the Department got returns from the vast majority of employers?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: So what is holding up the payment?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: Does the Department expect to be in a position to pay all of those before Christmas?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: There are 66,000 people still waiting and that is a very large number. Progress is very slow here because it is so hard to drag out figures and I ask the Chair to allow me ask one more question.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: On the issue of the State Claims Agency, there is €95 million additional funding and more than a 20% increase on what was estimated for the year. Bearing in mind that the point had been made at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts that during Covid there were a lot of out-of-court settlements, and that that was very cost effective as it were, then one would expect that the...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: What is the main driver?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: What is it? Is it a particular type of claim? What accounts for that level of increase?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: It would have been useful to have it this morning. A general point has been made about maternity claims. What has driven a more than 20% increase?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022) Róisín Shortall: The official has made my point for me and I thank the Chairman.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I too will raise BPFI report. We know from the report that rents in Ireland have increased by more than four times the EU average over the past 12 years. Those figures absolutely lay bare the extent of the crisis in this country. Under the Government, the fact is that things are getting worse. Rents, house prices and homelessness are all at record levels and are continuing to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I did not ask the Minister about local authority voids. That is something entirely different. I asked him about the vacant homes tax and the fact that tens of thousands of homes are lying idle at the moment. They are the most effective way to increase the stock of houses available to our young people, many of whom currently have no choice but to go abroad. Two out of three nurses are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is meaningless. When the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform becomes Minister for Finance in two weeks' time, will he undertake to review the level of this tax-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: -----and introduce a proper vacant homes tax?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is not a scheme. That is tokenism.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The Government just is not serious.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I too want to raise the patient safety Bill. We have waited over six months for Government amendments. They were circulated and we received them on Friday morning. There are 42 pages of amendments from the Minister. There has been no briefing and no pre-legislative scrutiny, and the deadline was on Monday morning for amendments to those amendments. That is an entirely unreasonable way of...
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It is important to note that while there is a lot of focus on the issue of open disclosure, the original, horrific and fatal problems associated with CervicalCheck the last time were to do with poor standards in the labs. That was the fundamental problem. In the past week or two, we read some of the background to that decision taken in 2008 by the then Minister to outsource all of the lab...
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Before the Minister sits down, perhaps he will clarify something. It could be significant.