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Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Increasingly, the public across all age cohorts has come to the conclusion that this Government is utterly failing to deliver affordable homes. I do not think the Minister could point to anything he has done during his term of office that has contributed to actually driving down the cost of housing. In fact, most of the initiatives he has taken are contributing to the high cost of housing....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: More subsidies.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Another subsidy.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: They are all subsidies.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What about cost?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What the Government is doing is not real cost rental, like Oscar Traynor Road and big subsidies.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Buying houses at market value is not cost rental.

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Stop pretending.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will take steps to approve the long-awaited pension increase for An Post pensioners (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39700/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that schools-based gambling education and awareness remains free from the influence of the gambling industry; if she intends to introduce gambling education and awareness in the post-primary curriculum at both junior and senior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the role of Chief Executive of Dublin City Council was not advertised and appointed ahead of the previous Chief Executive vacating the post, thereby removing the necessity to appoint an acting Chief Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40178/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the status of new legislation to replace the Dentists Act 1985; the timeline he is working towards; the reason for the delay in progressing this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40065/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 954. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 403 and 404 of 8 February 2023 and No. 481 of 3 May 2023, if he is aware of the position of the HSE's Heads of Psychology Services Ireland, HPSI, and the Psychological Society of Ireland, PSI, on the use of certain titles, given that these titles are not recognised as being currently in use by the HSE's national HR...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 967. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) are not consistently emergency taxed each time they change hospitals; to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the engagements he has had with the HSE and the Minister for Finance on this matter; when he expects this unsustainable problem for NCHDs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 968. To ask the Minister for Health the date at which he expects the National Taskforce on NCHD Workforce to publish its report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 970. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of pregabalin-related deaths between 2012 and 2020, as reported by the Health Research Board (details supplied); the actions he intends to take to address the substantial rise in pregabalin-related deaths; if he intends to curtail the source of pregabalin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 971. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to the announcement of additional annual funding of €3.5 million for drugs and inclusion health services, he will provide further details on how this additional funding is to be allocated if this money is to be used to remediate deficits in local and regional drug and alcohol task force projects' funding; if it will apply to all DATF...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 972. To ask the Minister for Health his views on partnerships between gambling industry-funded bodies and addiction services (details supplied); his views on whether it is appropriate for agencies in receipt of State funding to be engaged in such partnerships; the steps he is taking to ensure gambling addiction treatment is free from the influence of the gambling industry; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gambling Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1071. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on partnerships between gambling industry-funded bodies and addiction studies programmes in higher education institutes (details supplied); his views on whether such partnerships are appropriate; the steps he is taking to ensure addiction studies is free from the influence of the gambling industry; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the little baby bundle pilot initiative; if an estimated timeframe will be provided for the completion of the pilot scheme; if his Department is committed to a wider roll-out of the little baby bundle scheme after it takes into account the feedback of parents participating in the...