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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Committee on the Future of Healthcare came to the conclusion very quickly that we needed support from experts in the field, like the witnesses, to provide that evidence base, put the research at the disposal of the committee and help us design the system. What engagement has the Department or the HSE had with the witnesses in respect of the outworking of those recommendations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Department does not come looking for Dr. Burke.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Dr. Johnston spoke about PBRA. Is that something our guests were working on separate from the regional health authorities, RHAs, or was it regarded as a piece of that work? Was the purpose of the work linked to the RHAs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Very good advice is coming from that advisory body about the RHAs but we cannot get access to its advisory letters that are sent to the Minister every couple of months. That seems ridiculous. We talked about various big-ticket items relating to digital health, workforce planning and so on. Another of those is the whole question of a legal entitlement to healthcare, which has come up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Sláintecare plan sets out five pieces of legislation that are required to underpin it. We never hear plans for legislation, which concerns me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That lack raises concerns about the seriousness of the intent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That was my fear, all right. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance his intentions regarding Recommendation 16.1 of the report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare; the steps he intends to take to ensure adequate evaluation data on tax expenditures are collected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10378/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance his intentions regarding Recommendation 16.3 of the report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare; his intentions in relation to the retrospective inclusion of sunset clauses for existing tax expenditures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10379/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards in bringing forward proposals to enable young people under the age of 17 years to access the free contraception scheme, as committed to during Committee and Remaining Stages of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10380/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to improve the speed and efficiency of health technology assessments for new treatments that have already been approved by the European Medicines Agency, in particular preventative treatments for Covid-19 for immunocompromised people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10382/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the status of recommendation eight of the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10505/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018 to include zero alcohol products in the restrictions on advertising and marketing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10506/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (1 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commission a full independent review of service provision by a provider (details supplied) since publication of the Assurance Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10507/23]

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I start by thanking the Rural Independent Group for tabling this motion, which the Social Democrats is happy to support. There is no doubt that cash usage declined rapidly in the last decade, particularly during Covid. We now live in a country that has a very sophisticated electronic payments system and, therefore, a declining need for cash. This rapid change is born out in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (7 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Revenue Commissioners' public office on Cathedral Street, Dublin 1 will reopen to the public again as a walk-in public service without appointment necessary; if the public inquiry telephone numbers are now available again as normal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11256/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid clinics and post-acute clinics by role, in tabular form; and the number of vacant posts. [11535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for each of the long-Covid clinics and post-acute clinics by CHO, age category and time waiting in tabular form. [11536/23]