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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on plans to provide a community neurorehabilitation team in all nine CHOs; the timeline he is working towards for each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2422/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeline for delivery of each of the six surgical hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the aftercare provided to people who received the incorrect formulation of a vaccine (details supplied); the information provided to those impacted; if any adverse effects were reported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2387/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or any of the other relevant bodies will issue a formal authoritative request to a representative body to issue a notification to its members regarding the recall of products (details supplied); the reason this has not been done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2515/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans to accelerate implementation of the HSE's integrated financial management system; the timeline he is working towards for full roll-out of the new system; the role of the newly established productivity and savings taskforce in respect of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3172/24]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will also say thanks. These comments are normally reserved for the end of the process. There is a long process ahead of us. I appreciate all the work that has been done to date and look forward to getting through this monstrous task as regards the volume of the Bill and the amendments. I hope we can do so as expeditiously and as thoroughly as possible.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 5: In page 12, line 22, to delete “16 years” and substitute “12 years”. Please bear with us all because it is difficult to manage the various documents. Amendments Nos. 5 and 8 relate to providing access to birth details. The Bill currently provides for that to happen at the age of 16 years. I am proposing that 16 years be...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It was actually the Joint Committee on International Surrogacy that made the recommendation, along with Conor O'Mahony. This is an important point.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will press it because of the strong recommendations that have been made.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am pressing it.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 6: In paragraph (b)(iii), after "mother" to insert ", and if any, her spouse, civil partner or co-habitant. This does not interfere with the agency of the surrogate in any way. It simply recognises, in circumstances where the woman has a partner, that the social and psychological implications for the partner are quite significant. Because of this...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to begin by thanking LGBT Ireland and Equality for Children for their work on this Bill and the Labour Party for sponsoring it. The Social Democrats are happy to support this legislation. While the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 represented a significant step in the right direction for LGBTQ+ families, it was undoubtedly rife with inequalities and inconsistencies, so much...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: This does not suggest compulsion. It speaks about the need to provide counselling. It is not that it is compulsory.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is that counselling is provided for a person in those circumstances.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I do not see how providing counselling for that person's partner diminishes that.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: But will it? The question is whether it will if it is not referenced.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will not press the amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Were we not discussing amendments Nos. 46 and 47 in that grouping?