Results 21,581-21,600 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: I wanted to know what action, if any, this Minister is going to take in relation to his Secretary General.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: He can do it briefly.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: No, not that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Section 39 organisations.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank the Minister. May I ask about older people’s care? An excess of €1 billion is being spent on older people’s care. Over recent years, concern has been expressed about the definite trend towards very large congregated settings for older people, which I think most people agree are not ideal by any means. On the one hand, there is a business kind of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: I know, yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: But would that not be the case around disability services in particular, not older people services and not the private sector ones?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: That was committed to a few years ago.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: There is a queue for that to happen.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: When will the commission be up and running?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (20 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 48. To ask the Minister for Health if the new home care tender will be in place by 1 May 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18119/23]
- Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion at a time when so many families are struggling to survive. They are trying to cope with the high cost of housing, the ongoing situation regarding inflation and pressures on family budgets at a time when interest rates continue to rise. All of this combines to place a heavy burden on many mortgage holders and first-time buyers....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 178. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide additional capacity in public nursing homes; the number of additional public nursing home beds that have been provided in each of the past five years; if there are plans to develop new public nursing homes; if so, the location of these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19877/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 179. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1768 of 18 April 2023, the engagements he has had with employers in relation to the 'sign-off' process for healthcare assistants working under the General Employment Permit who have not completed the relevant QQI level-5 course but their existing qualifications and experience meet or exceed level-5; the steps he is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I thank everyone for their attendance. It is important to recognise all of the hard work that is going on within the Department and the start of the progress that is being made to turn things around in respect of waiting lists. That is very welcome. Obviously, there is a long way to go. I wish to talk about infrastructure and beds in particular. I have to express some concern that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It has been relaxed recently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why has the Dublin site not been announced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: If that is the Minister’s thinking, why did he not go with the Cappagh hospital? He is familiar with it and knows that it is a publicly-owned site. He knows there is a great willingness to develop that. He knows the expertise on orthopaedics is out there. Why did he not select that site?