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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: So, Ms O'Shea has not been contacted by the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I cannot help thinking that there is a delaying process at play here to some extent. That is very regrettable. I would have expected that senior people in the Department - at least the officials - would have been in touch to clarify some of the recommendations with an eye to planning the legislation that was recommended. Has the implementation group that was established within the HSE to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is very worrying, given the huge amount of work that has been done in this area. I am just wondering where that implementation group is getting its research from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It seems extraordinary. I take it the same goes for Dr. Conlon and Dr. Duffy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There has been no contact at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: She said that needed to be informed by service providers, service users, lawyers and ethicists. In what way would she see that recommendation being progressed if it is her view that that kind of representative body would have input into that? Who should initiate that and lead it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The other point Ms O'Shea made quite strongly when she was in with us perviously related to the uncertainty felt by service providers regarding where they stood relative to the law, and the fact that there had been no training on the provisions in the original Bill. Has she had any contact from any of the medical schools? Did any of them seek advice from her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, what is key?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, and it is getting more difficult to access. My final question concerns that training. Have the witnesses had any contact with the Irish College of General Practitioners in relation to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We will take that up separately. When I raised the issue of the proposed legislation with Ms O'Shea and asked if she thought it was possible to accommodate all of her recommendations in one Bill, she suggested that section 11 might need to be handled separately.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Chair, some of us have been here for three hours, including Senator Mullen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: He cannot come in at the end of it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to conduct a cost benefit analysis into subsidising essential asthma medications which are excluded from the long-term illness scheme as a means of reducing unscheduled asthma-related GP, ED visits and hospital admissions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45896/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 332. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the primary role and responsibilities of the National Director for Mental Health before this post was discontinued; the date this role was discontinued; to clarify which individuals in the HSE have assumed the roles and responsibilities previously held by the National Director for Mental Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the role of National Director for Mental Health within the HSE was discontinued; if, in light of the Mental Health Commission’s call for its reinstatement, if he will agree to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45899/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in each of the 75 CAMHS teams, by post, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45900/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to enhance the co-ordination and governance of community-based child and youth mental health services and establish a more cohesive and effective continuum of care, particularly given the number of HSE-funded service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45901/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 336. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the names and budgets of organisations funded by the HSE to deliver child and youth mental health services in each of the nine CHOs, in tabular form. [45902/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for each CAMHS unit and the number of patients that have been waiting for over 6, 12, 18 and 24 months, in tabular form. [45903/23]