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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 653. To ask the Minister for Health the involvement of bereaved families in HSE internal reviews into baby deaths, maternal deaths and catastrophic birth injuries; the steps taken to ensure that these cases are dealt with in a timely manner in safety incident management team reviews; if there is any available data in respect of these time frames; the person or body responsible for oversight...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Third Level Staff (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 662. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for the necessary clinical tutor posts to honour a previous commitment to provide five additional places on the radiation therapy programme in Trinity College Dublin; if not, the reason this commitment will not be fulfilled for the 2024-25 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21884/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 664. To ask the Minister for Health if training in respect of sepsis management is provided to healthcare workers; if so, the categories of healthcare workers who receive such training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21906/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if there are mandatory protocols in respect of sepsis management in all healthcare facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21907/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided for the necessary clinical tutor posts to honour a previous commitment to provide five additional places on the radiation therapy programme in Trinity College Dublin; if not, the reason this commitment will not be fulfilled for the 2024/25 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21885/24]

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on Sláintecare. I do not know why it was not entitled Sláintecare and I do not know why the Sinn Féin health spokesperson is trying to rebrand Sláintecare. Its strength is that it is an all-party policy. That is what gives it real effect. I think we should stick with that and be at one with regard to what we are trying to...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The previous Chair told us that because we were running behind schedule, there would be a little flexibility with the time.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There is a dire shortage of dentists and we were told the Minister's response was to put work out to the private sector. That is okay for a short-term stopgap measure. It does not work in the longer term. Will the Minister please try to concentrate on public employees in the public health service? In budget 2022, 21 neurological nursing posts were approved and 13 of those still have...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I have a response to a parliamentary question that tells me the recruitment embargo is preventing them being filled. I got it last week.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, I will give the reply to the Minister. This is a no-brainer. There are 860,000 people with neurological conditions.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: They need adequate community services. They deserve them, but it is also having a huge impact on the health service, with beds being taken up over a long period and people not being able to rehabilitate, get back to work and so on. These are the priority areas. I hope the Minister will give them attention.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will honour his commitment to legislate to ensure women going through a cancer diagnosis or other serious illness during maternity leave can defer that leave while they recover; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22063/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for their presentations. Why is nobody here from the clinical programme? Were apologies received from those representatives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Did the Cathaoirleach receive a letter from them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is quite unsatisfactory, if that arrangement had been made. The other thing, of course, is that we will have to have the HSE and the CEO back before the committee because very clear commitments were given to us this time last year. We took those commitments in good faith and they are not happening now. It is really disappointing. Apart from the rights of people with neurological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Was that the go-ahead from the HSE, from HR?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It strikes me that those posts should have been exempted because they were already funded and it was because of delays on the part of the HSE HR department that recruitment did not start. It was not a question of a lack of availability of nurse specialists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It was because of its administrative delays. We need to tackle that very urgently. Looking through the ones that were not filled, there were five specialist nurses for MS, for example. Other positions were not filled in respect of Parkinson's disease, other neuromuscular conditions and Huntington's disease. Two are missing for epilepsy. The number of people impacted by the failure of the...