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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is hard to understand why the Department would be considering an expensive private site when there is a publicly-owned site available that has expertise as well. It is also a good location in terms of accessibility.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (27 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 19 April 2023, if additional student funding supports, separate to those already announced for trainee educational psychologists, will be considered as part of the interim recommendations of the working group; the exact timeline she is working towards; the estimated date for completion of the final...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (25 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration is being given to reducing the minimum salary for family reunification concerning non-EEA healthcare assistants under the general employment permit, in view of changes to the scheme in 2021 that set the annual minimum salary at €27,000 for healthcare assistants under the general employment permit; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal against the refusal to pay out the pandemic special recognition payment for a group of front-line healthcare workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19278/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (25 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the review of Ireland's terminations of pregnancy law; the timeline he is working towards; if he will present the review to the Oireachtas Committee on Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19489/23]

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is the Minister talking about all professions here?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Just social care. Amendment No. 5 applies only to social care.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It applies only to social care.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It seems the intention of this is to lower the bar. I do not know if that is the case but my impression is that the bar for standards in social care is being lowered. I am sure there are potentially safety issues and risk issues involved in that but what concerns me is that there is not consistency. The work the board is doing is about assessing the level of risk and saying that there are...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is a strange approach to take on standards.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is saying that a person is qualified to, for example, work in older people services, even though he or she may never have worked a day in older people services.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We are talking here about the quality of the regulation, however.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Declaring somebody qualified in one aspect of social care does not mean that he or she is qualified in other aspects of it. That is what the Government is seeking to do with this amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Just to clarify, is the Minister saying they must engage in CPD?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Who arranges that?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Therefore, that would be a requirement for all social care workers.