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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (12 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports that will be made available to small retailers to take part in the deposit return scheme; if any research has been carried out as to whether there is potential for some retailers, such as small off-licences, to be disadvantaged by the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (12 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 731. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that alcohol price reductions on the basis of a customer having a supermarket loyalty card are not in breach of the Public Health Act (Alcohol) 2018; the engagements he has had with supermarkets on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54494/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (12 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 851. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 17 May 2023, if any beds, units or buildings have been closed in the Mater Misericordia University Hospital, Dublin 7, this year; if there are any plans to do so in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55360/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 858. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the lack of capacity in PrEP services, particularly in view of the 68% increase in HIV diagnoses in 2022; how the additional €600,000 allocated to support PrEP services in budget 2024 will be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 859. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in public PrEP services in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, by location, in tabular form; the number of vacancies in the service in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet representatives of an organisation (details supplied) to discuss serious funding challenges and its role in the evolving further education and training ecosystem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55813/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to respond to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s Fiscal Assessment Report, published recently; his views on their assessment of the health allocation for 2024 (details supplied); if he accepts the views of the Acting Chair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56155/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been brought to research into energy hardship experienced by cancer patients with life-limiting diagnoses (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 506. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to research into energy hardship experienced by cancer patients with life-limiting diagnoses (details supplied); the steps he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 507. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform regarding the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s Fiscal Assessment Report and their analysis of the Health allocation for 2024 (details supplied); his views on their analysis of the health allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56156/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is hard to believe that conditions that have such a massive impact on people's lives, on the health service and on our economy are so neglected. It is difficult to figure out why that is the case. Do the witnesses have views on that? There obviously is an impact for the individual in terms of death rates and disability. As this then takes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Did something initiate the previous ten-year strategy, which our guests have said was very good? How did that come about and how is it that we do not have that continuing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The then Minister had a particular interest in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Have both organisations met the current Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but have they met the Minister on the issue of the review and of the strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is difficult to understand why we are not making progress in this area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is no joined-up thinking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is often said that money talks. With regard to cost-benefit analysis, there has been reference to a cost-benefit. Is there an up-to-date cost-benefit analysis on the burden of stroke and heart disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is nothing recent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is there a model of care?