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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine, but we are talking today about the e-health strategy. I want to know why it is that we are so off-course and so behind in implementing an eight-year strategy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but there is this kind of passing of the parcel between the HSE, the Department of Health and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, comes into it as well. Where does responsibility lie? Who is driving this, if anyone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The HSE is waiting for the approval of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The importance of this is such that we need to arrange a special or urgent session on this. The senior people in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform responsible for this and for the decision in 2018 should be brought before us. What I am not clear about is the exact role of the Minister, Deputy Smyth, with regard to e-government generally. Is there yet another layer potentially...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: In fairness to the witnesses, it has to be said that they are operating within a context in which they are seriously constrained in what they can do. I know we are giving them a grilling today but the whole thing is just so frustrating. It is important we get to the root of the problem because we will not make progress on integrated healthcare otherwise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Regarding delays in funding approvals, is that mainly on the capital side as opposed to the current side or staffing, etc.? Is it capital approval that is required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Can Mr. Thomson send us the figures for capital and staffing on what is required to kick-start the programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are welcome. I thank them for coming in. I agree that we have to have the Secretary General of the Department of Health before us to answer for both what that Department is doing and for the position the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform took in 2018. We should aim to do that soon because this is so fundamental to everything else in the health service. The Chair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I take it that is an Irish public project.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: So that genetic material is not sold off.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach has indicated that the report to Cabinet next week will be published - that is a good thing - and also that he has agreed with my proposal that the Joint Committee on Health be fully briefed by the Secretary General. It would also be helpful if there were people there from the legal section in the Department. In 2005, when the Travers report into illegal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is the issue not that successive governments penalised medical card holders who needed nursing home care? That was the question I asked earlier. Throughout that entire period of 30 years, did no Minister ever say, "Hang on, why are we not providing medical card patients with proper care when they need it?". Does the Taoiseach accept that fundamental to this entire issue is the fact that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There still is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It was because of a failure to provide public nursing home care.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this motion. It is important that we talk about this issue until it is resolved. We seem to have been talking about shortcomings in mental health services for time immemorial and yet it seems nothing is being done to bring them up to the standard that is expected for a modern and wealthy society. Many of the problems impacting our mental health services, especially CAMHS, are...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 24 January 2023, the number of persons employed in the Ukraine Division of his Department in each of the quarters since it was established in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4655/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to strengthen the law concerning gangland crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4073/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Process (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 169. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2023 will be operational; if he will report on the delays for the signing of Statutory Instruments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5122/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Wards of Court (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people, under 18 and over 18 years, who have been taken into wardship in December 2022 and January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5123/23]