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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 263. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide details of the turnover of staff in her Department for each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and the percentage of total staff this represents in each category. [9277/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for beginning the project of automating the remaining gate keeper crossings on the Limerick-Nenagh-Ballybrophy railway line; if the overall running costs of the line will be reduced when these crossings are automated; if he expects new services to be introduced following this project; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the urgent care clinic for children at Connolly Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9460/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Good morning. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Listening to them all and reading the documentation we have before us, one cannot help but get a strong sense that there are major problems with governance of the ambulance service. It involves the two organisations here this morning, the HSE, the Department of Health and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Whose report is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am on the clock. Paul Cullen of The Irish Timeswent to a lot of trouble to get his hands on this report. He had to go through the entire freedom of information process and appeals. It was finally released to him. If a report is released under freedom of information, it should be publicly available to anybody who requests it. I would expect the witnesses would supply us with that report...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: If Mr. Morton does not mind, I would like him to answer the question I posed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What is Mr. Morton's view, from the National Ambulance Service, of what that alternative model should be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What needs to happen to make that occur? Where does the decision-making need to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is not good enough to say to the people of Dublin that there are thorny issues involved. There have been thorny issues involved for the last 20 years. When are they going to be sorted out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What is Mr. Keeley's view or the view of Dublin Fire Brigade on what that alternative model should be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but if the two organisations are of the one mind about the new model, who needs to be making decisions to introduce that new model and to make it possible? At what level does that decision-making have to take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Thanks for that. I have one further question about what is happening in relation to students in the University of Limerick, UL, and why they cannot get clinical placements in the NAS. Those who are studying there and who need to get clinical placements have to go abroad. That seems incredible. Why is that the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I do not have time to go into that further but I would say that as well as the various agencies I have referred to already, there is another agency that is important, namely, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, PHECC. At some stage, I would like to know who on earth that council is and what is its role because that is not by any means clear, which does seem to be problematic.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: On behalf of the Social Democrats, I welcome this timely motion from Sinn Féin, which we support strongly. I pay tribute to the staff of the NAS and Dublin Fire Brigade for the essential work they do, which is a matter of life and death. That work is made significantly more difficult, however, due to the severe shortage of staff, vehicles and infrastructure generally. At last week's...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a circular from an organisation (details supplied) which outlines that clerical and executive officer grade civil servants assigned to An Garda Síochána have serious concerns related to a possible change in their existing terms and conditions as part of the Policing, Security and Community...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (28 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the way in which an employment status of civil servant is reclassified to that of public servant; if TUPE is applicable in such a situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10371/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is an understatement.

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(b) in subsection (4), the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a): “(aa) where any of the communications concerned were made on behalf of a client, details of payments received or fees charged,”,”. First, there are issues about Members who want to...