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Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I think it does to a certain extent. What is the Chair's understanding of this grouping? Are we talking about amendments Nos. 141 and 143 as a group or are the subsequent lines included too? This is based on the email from-----

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: When did the Minister speak to those amendments?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I would not mind hearing the Minister's comments again, if he does not mind.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Yes. Three of the amendments to amendment No. 112 are quite similar. It is, in different places, after "conceive", to insert "and/or bear", and after "treatment", to insert "for uterine reasons. There is a few repeats of that where the question arises.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Can we have a debate?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Can we have a debate?

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will start by thanking Deputies Ward and Cullinane for their work in producing this legislation. The Social Democrats are very happy to support it. Yesterday marked seven months since the damning report by the inspector of mental health services into CAMHS was published. That report revealed a level of dysfunction that went very far beyond what was first feared and spelt out in the...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome these statements on youth mental health and the renewed focus on the need to improve services in that area, but after Tuesday's debate, I am still unclear about the Government’s position on CAMHS regulation. The Minister still has not committed to acting on the Inspector of Mental Health Services' primary recommendation out of 49 recommendations in total that CAMHS should be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 196 and 197 of 15 February 2024, to provide further details in respect of her statement (details supplied); the education partners that have been engaged to date; the timeline for completion of these discussions; to explain what she meant by “strengthening of approach” in her previous reply;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 603. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals who received an invitation to take part in BowelScreen on a quarterly basis from quarter 1 2016 to the end of 2023; and the absolute number and percentage of individuals who accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified months, in tabular form. [9225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals who received an invitation to take part in CervicalCheck on a quarterly basis from quarter 1 2016 to the end of 2023; and the absolute number and percentage of individuals who accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified months, in tabular form. [9226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 605. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individuals who received an invitation to take part in BreastCheck on a quarterly basis from quarter 1 2016 to the end of 2023; and the absolute number and percentage of individuals who accepted an invitation and subsequently attended a screening appointment in each of the specified months, in tabular form. [9227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons the BowelScreen programme has yet to be expanded to all people aged 55 to 74 years; the measures taken to date to expand the screening age; and the timeframe by which the programme will be expanded to these age groups. [9228/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people who received a diagnosis of breast cancer on a national basis after referral to the "urgent" symptomatic breast disease clinic cancer in each quarter from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [9229/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 608. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people who received a diagnosis of breast cancer on a national basis after referral to the "non-urgent" symptomatic breast disease clinic cancer in each quarter from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [9230/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 609. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people who received a diagnosis of lung cancer on a national basis after referral to the lung rapid access clinic cancer in each quarter from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [9231/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 610. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people who received a diagnosis of prostate cancer on a national basis after referral to the prostate rapid access clinic cancer in each quarter from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [9232/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for the work they do in Chime. Mr. Lennon provided very interesting detail in the past few minutes on the dynamics within the hearing loss world, if you like, and how the support system is determining practice, which it seems may not be good practice. He made a very good case. The point made by the WHO is that for every €1 invested the State gets a return of...