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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Telecommunications Infrastructure (8 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the section 254 licensing system for telecommunications infrastructure; if he will consider amending the relevant legislation to ensure that applications for this infrastructure go through the standard planning process, thereby facilitating public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of HSE contracts being awarded to a company linked to bribery (details supplied); the reason that the HSE continued to work with this company after the bribery was first exposed in 2015; the steps being taken to ensure that this is not repeated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61481/22]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: On the point about the Bill to be debated tomorrow, did the Minister give a commitment to providing a briefing?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It would be helpful to have a note on the 42 pages of amendments. I made the point earlier in the Dáil that this is not a good way to do business.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Turning to the Covid recognition payment, there is now a bit more information than we had on the previous occasion. It was stated that this applies to 800 groups and non-public organisations, 532 of which have made submissions. Have the payments been made to those 532 or has the Department just received the submissions?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is that 300 in total?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What is the total figure that applies to?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The figure is from a total of 800, however.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate that, but the Department did not ask them until November.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I agree with some of the points the Minister made. Nursing homes got a ton of money during Covid; there is no doubt about that. There was a lot of talk in the early days of Covid by the then Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, to the effect that we would have to take a new approach to the care of older people, that congregated settings were not the best model, that we needed to develop a new model...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, that is why an expert group was set up under Mr. Justice Meenan. Its recommendations are two years old. Does the Minister have a timescale for implementing them?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: When does the Minister expect to have that timescale?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: In addition to the cost for the taxpayer, this is not a proper way of dealing with adverse incidents. There are better ways of doing that and the difficulty is that this is something of a bonanza for the legal profession. Furthermore, it is not treating families properly and people are being left, for years on end, waiting for proper recognition of the adverse incident.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is again describing the problem.