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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There can be a policy on paper but that is not the full story. The HSE has told us about seven policies it has to deal with this area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Connolly. Will one of the IMO representatives answer the same question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: On that last point about racial attacks and abuse, part of the awareness campaign has to be getting across to people how dependent we are on healthcare workers who come from abroad to keep the health service operating. That is a point that is very often not appreciated. I would like to talk about some of the statistics. The point was made about the low arrest rates of perpetrators of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Do they relate to nurses and midwives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Dr. Kilgallen made the point about e-health earlier. It is right across the health board but what gets measured matters and we know that there is very little measuring of incidents or outcomes. Given the scale of this problem and how negatively impactful it is on staff, has this issue been raised with the HSE board at all? Do the witnesses know if the HSE board is aware of the scale of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The question of legislation to make it a specific offence to assault a healthcare worker was raised. That is something we need to pursue separately, arising from this meeting. Do the witnesses know from their colleagues in the national health service, NHS, the extent to which legislation in the UK has made a difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Absolutely, and we need to be very clear about that. The responsibility lies at the door of the employer, the HSE, individual hospitals and also the section 39s. I want to go back to the inadequate role the HSE is playing at the moment. Ideally employers should be prosecuted for failing to provide safe working conditions for staff. Do I take from the response given earlier that there have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I take it from what the witnesses are saying that that is the nub of the thing, getting the HSE to first of all have the capacity to oversee what is happening in the health sector with this special unit and, then, for it to be proactive in taking cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: From reading the submission from the HSE one does not get the impression that there is a serious problem here at all and that is obviously a cultural issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Good point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: This committee has been doing a lot of work recently on workforce planning, or the lack of it. Obviously, the whole question of the conditions for existing staff is a major factor in this and the whole aspect of workforce retention, as has been said, is also important. I am not aware of any work that is going on in that regard. We will, therefore, very much take this point on board. I...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I want to echo the sentiments, which the Minister expressed before he started into this debate, on the many thousands of people who come here from abroad to work in our health service. We depend on these people to keep our health service running. It is shocking that they or any of their countrypeople are subjected to racial abuse in this country. As the Minister did, I thank them for their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (9 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 307. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 22 November 2022, the status of the final report of the expert group on the reform and management of clinical negligence claims; the reason the recommendations which come under his remit have not been implemented; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6387/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I wish everyone good morning. Our guests are all very welcome, and I thank them for their presentations. There is a remarkable similarity in what they are all saying, namely, that the health sector work environment is very unhealthy and has resulted in many healthcare workers being in a state of bad health. The latter is the result of stress and the mental health issues that have already...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: They are absolutely appalling and in the release of the INMO figures we are talking about, at the end of the day maybe 28 people are being convicted if those ratios are applied, which is shocking, and it can be seen why staff are so fed up with what is going on and the lack of responsibility on the part of the employer. I do not know if anyone has seen the HSE's submission to the committee...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an employee on an intra-company transfer work permit, who remains on a contract in their home country, has an entitlement to statutory leave under Irish law, such as annual leave, maternity leave, paternity leave and parent’s leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6023/23]