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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to further expand the medical conditions screened for under the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; the conditions currently being considered by the National Screening Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18225/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add familial hypercholesterolemia to the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; if this is being considered by the National Screening Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18226/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 177. To ask the Minister for Health when testing for severe combined immunodeficiency and spinal muscular atrophy will commence under the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme, following the announcement of additional funding to expand the programme in February; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18223/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to provide further supports and services for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to introduce a statutory right to homecare; the timeline he is working towards in publishing the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18326/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (25 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) by a concerned parent of a child in Dublin 11; the steps he is taking to address the issues raised by the parent; if he will examine this particular case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18623/24]

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and providing us an opportunity to debate the cost of fuel. There is no doubt but the high price of petrol and diesel has had a huge impact on workers and families across the country, in particular in rural Ireland. That is why interventions like excise duty cuts have been required. After two years it is surely time for the Government to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The details that emerged during the inquest of 16-year-old Aoife Johnston were horrific. She did not need surgery; she needed an antibiotic. Instead of receiving the care she needed, she was left to die. On the night that Aoife lay dying, one doctor was trying to manage 191 emergency department patients. Medics at the inquest described the emergency department that night as a war zone and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Taoiseach. I am not suggesting that acquiring Barrington's Hospital is going to solve all the problems by any means but it will make a significant contribution to expanding capacity. It is an existing operating hospital and could be brought onstream very speedily. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach will pursue that further. Other critical things obviously need to happen...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 494. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to projects in the Dublin 9 and 11 areas out of the community safety initiative/community safety innovation fund; the details of the initiatives funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19028/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 495. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether community safety initiative/community safety innovation fund monies can be used to support public realm space/park improvements in areas which have suffered from criminality; if so, if she will point to successful examples of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19029/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 642. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 21 March 2024, to provide an update on the status of the proposed vaccine damage scheme; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 662. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the special scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long-Covid, following the three-month extension announced on 16 April 2024; if he will replace the temporary scheme with a long-term occupation illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18929/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 663. To ask the Minister for Health his response to the Law Reform Commission's report entitled 'A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding'; his plans in respect of implementing the recommendations; if he will commit to establishing a new and fully independent national safeguarding authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18930/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 683. To ask the Minister for Health if he will add endometriosis to the long-term illness scheme; if this is being considered as part of the development of the National Endometriosis Framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19030/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 684. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the National Endometriosis Framework; the timeline he is working towards for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19031/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider changes to the age and body mass index limits for fertility treatment; if clinicians have discretion to treat patients over those limits in certain circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19032/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (2 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on reform of the ethics in public office legislation, given that the review of the statutory framework was completed in December 2022; the reason for the delay in publishing the heads of Bill; if he expects this Bill to be introduced this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20037/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (2 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The programme for Government contains a commitment to reform and consolidate the ethics in public office legislation. When are we going to see that legislation? It is over four years since the commitment was given.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (2 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There have been incredible delays in all of this. It is 14 months since the review report was published. We know the important areas that are covered by it. We should not have any further delay. It is 20 years now since SIPO started identifying the serious gaps in its powers. It is supposed to be a watchdog but it seems to be more of a lapdog at this stage because of the failure of...