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Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It has to be said that the experience for patients in working through professional bodies has not been good. In terms of adverse incidents, generally speaking the HSE is the body named, as well as the hospital and individual. Allowing a person the opportunity to make a complaint about clinical judgment to the HSE does not preclude a person from making a similar complaint to a professional...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Tonight is an important and positive occasion in finalising the important legislation before us, but it is also a poignant occasion. Throughout the debate, we have held those women front and centre and thought of them continuously. That includes those women lost their lives as a result of what happened with CervicalCheck and those whose lives were turned upside down but who have survived....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 86. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the inordinate number of senior staff who left his Department in 2022; the analysis, if any, of the reasons for these high numbers; if exit interviews were carried out and, if so, the outcome of these; and the steps that will be taken to address this concerning matter. [8013/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I have a serious concern about the high turnover of staff in the Department of Health in the past two years. In 2021, the number of staff leaving jumped considerably and it jumped again in 2022. I am concerned about the instability this will cause and is causing in the health service. What is the Minister doing about it and what exactly is going on in the Department of Health?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: By any standard the level of turnover is exceptional. For example, overall last year, 155 staff left, which represents about 24%. Almost one quarter of all staff in the Department of Health left last year. That must create instability and there must be some underlying reason for it. It is exceptional and completely out of line with previous years. Let us consider who those people were....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am asking about the turnover.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is not helpful for the Minister to deny the situation exists. These are exceptional figures. Almost a quarter of staff in the Department of Health left last year, including a large number of senior people. They have walked out of the Department of Health. These are not retirements. These people chose to leave the Department of Health. Why did that happen and, more important, what is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should speak about the numbers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should speak about the numbers. They do not lie.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Staff (16 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No, the Minister has not.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the review of the immigrant investor programme, submitted in November 2020; the reason for the delay in publishing this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6762/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering curtailing or suspending new applications to the immigrant investor programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6763/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people, under-18 and over-18 years of age, who were taken into wardship in December 2022 and January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6764/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to publish the prison health needs assessment; if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6768/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date and by month, in tabular form. [6767/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 653. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban via the drugs payment scheme, following reports that the process is very unclear and acts as a barrier to obtaining the drug in a timely manner; the steps he is taking to address these access issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 654. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the reimbursement scheme for cariban in order that it can be prescribed by a GP; the reason only consultant obstetricians can prescribe this treatment under the drugs payment scheme, given that the majority of women do not see a consultant until they are at least 12 weeks pregnant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6766/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have left his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by grade, and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [6535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to the Dental Council (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 665. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1515 of 18 January 2023, the additional steps being taken to address significant delays in processing applications by Ukrainian dentists to the Dental Council; if further staff have been provided to deal with this backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6803/23]