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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The issue I raise concerns home care and staffing in nursing homes. We can only describe this as a crisis that exists in particular in regard to home care, where there are very long waiting lists and it is largely due to very poor terms and conditions for staff working in this important area. The funding of the package to improve conditions seems to be lying with the Department of Public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I do not think the Minister of State can absolve the Department of all responsibility in this regard. There is a funding requirement involved in this. While I am not sure if the Minister of State is aware of it, at the moment there are 6,500 older people on waiting lists for home care. They have been approved for it, and it is difficult enough to get approval for it, but they are on a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I reiterate that there is a real crisis in relation to getting sufficient staff to provide what is a critical social care service. Those difficulties were recognised in the strategic workforce plan. There were 16 recommendations made, principally in relation to pay and conditions. The plan recommended a living wage and paying people for their travel time which, incredibly, is not in place...

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay. I am going to leave it at that. I just want to make one final point, which is that the terms of reference did not provide for any attempt to establish accountability and as long as that looseness exists, we will have people going off doing solo runs. I want to pursue that in relation to the accountability board that the Government is supposed to have in place but I will leave it for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date he intends to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as committed to in the programme for Government; the reason for the delay in doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21081/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider providing funding to reinstate the employability support worker for the Finglas Targeted Youth Employability Support Initiative; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21082/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 653. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 473 of 3 May 2023, the timeline he is working towards for finalisation and publication of the RHA Implantation Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21749/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 654. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken in his Department and the HSE to ensure that senior leaders have been freed up from some of their ‘business as usual’ responsibilities to devote time to Regional Health Areas implementation; if external experts and resources have been sought to assist with RHA implementation; and if so, to provide details; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 655. To ask the Minister for Health if the Regional Health Areas Implementation Plan will outline the proposed governance and accountability arrangements for RHAs; if consideration is being given to legislative changes required for implementation, including accountability relationships between and among RHAs, HSE Centre and his Department, as recommended in a letter from the RHA Advisory...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 656. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on each of the ten key next steps in Regional Health Areas implementation, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide further details regarding the recently announced €25 million in funding for 854 additional nursing posts to fully implement the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skillmix in all acute hospitals; the timeline he is working towards for filling these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21863/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chair and wish everyone a good morning. I find this whole area quite confusing because we have been talking about it since 2014 and much of the terminology is changing. It is hard to know whether it is a matter of trying to start afresh and forget about all the nonsense that happened in the past. There is an element of that. The Department is using new terminology, etc. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Where are we with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What does Mr. O'Connor mean by advanced?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Will Mr. O'Connor explain that phrase he is using?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Do people actually have IHIs?