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

Róisín Shortall: On the neurological teams, it is very disappointing. We were given a commitment that recruitment would take place in early 2024. Now, late 2024 is being said. Is that actually going to happen? Does Ms Rogers know what stage that recruitment is at?

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

Róisín Shortall: That is very understandable. Earlier, Ms Rogers spoke about one of the two teams in existence, in which there should be 12 members across different disciplines but there are only five.

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

Róisín Shortall: Should there be 12 members in each of the teams? It is 12 members across nine CHOs.

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

Róisín Shortall: There should be 108 multidisciplinary therapists in those teams. How many members of those teams are there at the moment? There are two teams in existence. It is hugely understaffed.

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

Róisín Shortall: To go back to Ms Rogers's point about the implementation strategy and the lack of energy, the implementation framework was established in February 2019. That is five years ago. How does that operate at the moment? Who is responsible for driving it?

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

Róisín Shortall: Who are the two joint chairs?

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

Róisín Shortall: Is the NAI involved in that?

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

Róisín Shortall: How often does that body meet?

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

Róisín Shortall: Is the head of disability in the Department or the HSE?

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

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for all they do.

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

Róisín Shortall: It is mid-May 2024. If recruitment has not started - there is a lot riding on this - people need to answer for their failure to deliver on the promises that were given.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is not.

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that access to dental care is in crisis and that urgent action is required by Government to address the many aspects of this crisis; notes that: — there are an estimated 104,000 children on a waiting list for the school screening dental service, out of an eligible 208,000 children; — in the past five years there has been a...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I had hoped that the Minister would come in today and outline a clear plan to reform of public dentistry. However, all we got was talk. The scripts that were read out by the two Ministers of State were an absolute disgrace. The Ministers of State are either delusional or blatantly disingenuous. They displayed a complete disconnect from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will ask the Taoiseach about the provision of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classrooms. Two years ago, the NCSE recommended two new ASD classrooms for a school in Glasnevin in my constituency. However, the planning and building unit is not responding to any of its calls and has not responded for more than a year now. Is there an unwritten policy that only reconfigured classrooms, where...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is acceptable for an approved housing body (details supplied) to ask one of its tenants to cover the cost of an attic conversion in a situation in which there is additional housing need due to overcrowding; if this is Department policy; whether it applies to all approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if a report has been published (details supplied); if not, if he will provide a copy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22599/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 617. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the advice from the Office of the Attorney General in relation to the extension of the free contraception scheme to 16-year-olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22831/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 618. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the options paper developed by his Department in response to the report of the Oireachtas Health Committee on the Independent Review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 619. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the total number of BowelScreen invitations issued, by county, in each of the years from 2021 to 2024, in tabular form; the corresponding number of people, per county, who returned a completed FIT test in these same years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22834/24]