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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It stands on its merits. It just does not make sense that a barrier to accessing oral contraception exists. It is appropriate that we do this today and I thank the group for their explanation for the thinking behind it. It is about bringing us into line with other countries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I think Deputy Kenny raised a question about a consultant in a hospital giving a prescription on discharge and the patient then having to go the GP. That is not standard in other countries. What is the best way around that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is it just a matter of allowing a consultant to do that, as well as a GP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is an administrative change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Regarding the national strategy and an action plan, where are we at the moment? Is it purely aspirational? Are things in train?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That case still has to be made and accepted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We are at an early stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is something we can pursue as a committee.

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I have said it before and I will say it again: the cost-of-living package represented by this legislation is completely inadequate. It is a further indication of this Government being out of touch with the real lives of so many people across the country. Up and down the country, so many workers and families are struggling to keep their heads just above water and this package is insufficient...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Am I important too?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is no danger of that. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I very much welcome the Bill, which the Social Democrats will be supporting fully. It is an important move in the context of access to healthcare. Cost is a significant barrier to people accessing healthcare and it is very welcome that these charges, which can total €800 per year, are being removed. I have stated many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome Mr. Gloster and congratulate him on his appointment. I wish him very well in the role. No pressure but the whole country needs him to do well. I will stay with the issue of the RHAs. Notwithstanding the need to keep the health service running, it can be argued that Mr. Gloster's main job in regard to the reform programme is to devolve power and responsibility from the centre,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No, I am not saying the structure, I am saying the terms on which those six leaders will be appointed, and the terms of their employment will surely require legal underpinning of that accountability piece.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Gloster talks about the accountability resting with the CEO. That is part of the problem, that everything comes back to the CEO. Not only does that remove the proper level of accountability from the regions but it also disempowers the leaders in the regions. Does Mr. Gloster accept that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It will not be on the individuals solely. It should apply to senior administrative people and clinical people as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I would just point out that Professor Tom Keane, in speaking to the Committee on the Future of Healthcare said the most significant thing that we could recommend is for there to be clinical accountability across the system. That is a huge gap in the RHA framework at the moment. I will leave that with Mr. Gloster. I want to move on to workforce planning. Mr. Gloster speaks about the need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Gloster. I have two specific questions for him. We are almost at the end of the first quarter and we have not yet seen the HSE's 2023 service plan. Service providers all over the country are waiting for details of their allocation. It is incredible that it is so late. What are his intentions in regard to the service plan and when can we expect to see it? I note from his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Gloster.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Picking up on the point of accountability, it has been this committee’s view and it was certainly the case in the Sláintecare recommendations, that accountability is critical for those people who will be leading each of the six regions, and that such accountability needs to be legally underpinned. It seems that that proposal was not fully accepted by the Government in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 9 March 2023, to provide a breakdown of therapy hours by assessments and intervention type, in tabular form. [14366/23]