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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It was recently reported that medical consultants were given an estimated date for opening. Can Dr. Curtis report on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It was recently reported that paediatric consultants were told that the hospital was likely to open in March 2025. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Who gave them that date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Does Dr. Curtis know who gave it to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: On a procedural matter, Mr. Gunning said that if he had got the complaint report last Friday, when it was due, he would be reporting on it today. I take it that if he gets the report next week, the committee will receive it within a week.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 29 June 2023, in respect of essential emergency works required by a school in Dublin 11 (details supplied) if she will ensure that necessary consequential works are also included in order to ensure safe, hygienic and acceptable conditions are created for the children attending this school and that...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 415. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in relation to RTÉ pensioners, many of whom are surviving on low to middle incomes, she intends to sanction RTÉ to release funds so that the pensions' trustees can pay out the pension increase, which has been frozen for a number of years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35460/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average wait time for an assessment of need for children who have been added to the assessment of need waiting list, by children’s disability network team; the average wait time for an assessment of need for children who have not been added to the assessment of need waiting list but were referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address medicine shortages, with over 300 medicines in short supply, according to Health Products Regulatory Authority data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35379/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: In recent days a national scandal has been unfolding in relation to the most medically compromised children in this country. It relates to wholly adequate health services provided for them, and in the case of some of those children really serious adverse outcomes including the tragic death of one child. There is no transparency about what is going on here. All we have got is obfuscation....

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I welcome the motion because it is certainly a time when so many households are struggling with the high cost of living, including the spiralling cost of housing. In particular, we know that many mortgage holders are being pushed to the pins of their collars and that has to be addressed in some way. I am not necessarily saying that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 4. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the significant underfunding of the HSE national service plan; the current projected deficit to year-end; the reason his Department did not address this matter when its implications were highlighted by the HSE at the start of 2023; how he will address this deficit up to the end of 2023 in a way which ensures service capacity, activity...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We knew from early in the year that there was a black hole in the funding for the HSE national service plan, NSP. This was identified by a board member of the HSE, Mr. Brendan Lenihan, who is the chair of the audit and risk committee. He said he was not prepared to go along with this messaging, which was trying to cover over the fact that there was a serious shortfall in funding for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I do not accept what the Minister of State has said. I know who writes this stuff and it is not true. It does not reflect reality. There is a three-month delay in approving the national service plan and we know why that was. It was because there were serious concerns about underfunding of the plan. We have known for a long time that the population is increasing and ageing and that there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No. That is not what I asked.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Department got notice of this question. I asked what the projected deficit for the end of year was and the Minister of State has not been able to provide that figure. She should have been supplied with it. I ask her to go back to the Secretary General, get that figure and send it on to me. We should have had it today. Everybody's fear is that there will be a delay in recruitment and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry, but it is set out in the service plan. All of the shortfalls are identified in the service plan.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I heard that. What about recruitment?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I did, but I want answers.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How many of the 6,000 staff have been recruited?