Results 22,041-22,060 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a new geographically limited HSE GMS contract for public vasectomy services from August 2023 (details supplied); his views on same; the steps he is taking to ensure that patients in the counties and regions affected have access to vasectomies via the public system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30621/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 730. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to develop a national hearing care plan, as recommended by the World Health Organisation; if he has held discussions with the relevant stakeholders on an agreed model of hearing care for the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31150/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 750. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection regarding this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31276/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health services provided by each voluntary NGO provider; the costs of this provision for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31285/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health services provided by each private for-profit provider; the costs of this provision for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31286/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health services provided directly by the State; the costs of this provision for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31287/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 754. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare hours provided by each voluntary NGO provider in the years 2021 and 2022; the costs of this provision per provider for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31288/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 755. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare hours provided by each private for-profit provider in the years 2021 and 2022; the costs of this provision per provider for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31289/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare hours provided directly by the State in the years 2021 and 2022; the costs of this provision for the years 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31290/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 773. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 24 June 2023, to provide an update on plans to expand eligibility for GP visit cards to people who earn the median household income or less; the status of discussions with an organisation (details supplied); the timeline he is working towards in honouring this budget 2023 commitment; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 774. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 664 of 16 June 2023, to provide an update on plans to expand free GP care to all children aged six and seven years; the status of discussions with an organisation (details supplied); the timeline he is working towards in honouring this Budget 2023 commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31357/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: What do we know about the epidemiology or risk factors in respect of the condition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We referred earlier to the announcement in March about the development of the national endometriosis framework. I take it that the association has had an involvement in drawing up that framework.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No. Were the witnesses not consulted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: So, the only advocacy group in the country was not consulted on the framework.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is quite incredible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is incredible that the patient voice was not heard in relation to drawing up this framework. One would expect that it certainly would have been. Has the organisation met anybody in the HSE or in the Department of Health in recent times?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I mean meetings directly with the HSE or the Department of Health.