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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Hospital Staff (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to provide funding for current trainee educational psychologists, separate to the one-off bursary for trainees in their third year of professional training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18574/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been treated in long-Covid and post-acute clinics since they were established, by clinic, in tabular form. [18517/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a waiting list for long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by clinic and wait time, in tabular form. [18518/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by role, in tabular form; the number of vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18519/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the date at which he intends to commence the Health (Amendment) Act 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18520/23]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chair and the Minister for his presentation. At the outset, it would be remiss of us not to revert to the Maura Quinn report which was published this week, given we are discussing expenditure within the Minister’s Department at this meeting. I have to say I was concerned about the approach the Minister took to that report and the statement he issued on its eventual...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The report sets out the contrasting accounts of what happened. Whose account does the Minister believe?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about Ms Gillane’s comments in respect of the Minister’s Secretary General’s claims, where she says they were grossly inaccurate.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: If the Minister believes Ms Gillane’s account is correct, then that account is totally at variance with the claims being made by the Minister’s Secretary General. Surely that is a situation that he cannot just move on from. There needs to be some accounting for that huge disparity in the two people's account of the situation. I again ask the Minister, whose account of events...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No. The Minister has not.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No. We have an account of events from the Minister’s Secretary General. We have a conflicting account from Ms Gillane. I am asking whose account of events does the Minister believe?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. That is entirely contrary to the account that was provided by the Secretary General. Does the Minster intend to take any action about that?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Surely the accountability has to be to Deputy Donnelly, as the Minister in the relevant Department. Surely, he should be establishing accountability on the part of his Secretary General.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I know what we are talking about-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: -----but the bottom line is-----

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: -----we are talking about the spending of a substantial amount of public money without going through the normal protocols.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, we know what it was.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry Chair, we know what the situation is. I am asking the Minister a direct question about this and about the accountability. Is the Minister insisting on accountability of his Secretary General? Because the Minister has just said that he accepts the evidence provided by Ms Gillane in this regard. That evidence is in direct conflict with the claims made by the Minister’s...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am going to stop at this point in relation to that issue.