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

Róisín Shortall: The problems have existed for many years and there seems to be a lack of action on them.

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

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, apart from doctors.

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

Róisín Shortall: The Estimates show 8,500 posts were not filled and the savings so I wonder how serious people were about recruiting.

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

Róisín Shortall: That is cold comfort to people who are on waiting lists for various community services or hospital services for years, and especially children. The waiting lists are just scandalous. For the last six months I have raised the issue of workforce planning and I have seen no evidence of any serious workforce planning going on either in the Department or in the HSE. We were promised reports...

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

Róisín Shortall: My last question is on the allocations made for Covid. With only three weeks remaining in this year I appeal to the Minister to personally intervene in the issue of the proposed closure of the only existing long Covid clinic that has dealt with 1,500 patients, which is a vast number, in the Mater hospital. In 2021, a business case for the clinic was submitted to the HSE but there was no...

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

Róisín Shortall: It does not look like a clinical decision. The research on which the HSE has based its plan for the six clinics is very old research from the end of 2020, which is before there was an understanding or an appreciation of the neurological impacts. It is old research and the most up to date research in this country was done in the Mater. The decision to close seems to have been done on the...

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

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister.

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats will not oppose this annual piece of legislation as we know it is needed to give legal authorisation to spending for the rest of this year and into next year. As has been the case for the previous two years, it is difficult to draw any sort of meaningful comparison with these figures. While normal life resumed for much of the country in the course of this year, Covid,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on progress to honour a commitment made in the Joint Policy Statement on Housing Options for our Ageing Population in 2019 that 30% of all new dwellings would be built to incorporate universal design principles to accommodate Ireland's ageing population; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 546. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 29 November 2022, the number of University of Limerick Hospital Group capital projects that the State has recently invested in; the plans under way to invest in further hospital capacity in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61715/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign of an organisation (details supplied) to establish a working group to develop a national hearing plan, as recommended by the World Health Organization; if he intends to establish such a group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); if the results of the health technology assessment for evusheld have been circulated to the Covid-19 therapeutics advisory group, TAG; if TAG has reviewed the findings of the Health Technology Assessment, HTA, and made recommendations; if so, if he will publish these recommendations; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Correspondence (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to concerns raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the process of divesting primary schools of religious patronage; the number of schools that have been fully divested relative to targets; the number that are at an advanced stage in the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that is being taken to expedite the process of divesting primary schools of religious patronage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are involved in the process of divesting primary schools of religious patronage, including, but not limited to, the way that schools are selected; the steps that are taken to consult with stakeholders; the legalistic parts of the process; the way that her Department deals with resistance to plans; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations in respect of a therapy (details supplied) for 35 children living with cystic fibrosis who are excluded from the 2017 agreement; the steps that are being taken to progress this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62496/22]

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay. Costs are mounting, as we know from these Estimates-----

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

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is aware of the problems.