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

Róisín Shortall: 620. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the total number of eligible men and women who are not on the existing BowelScreen register or list which is informed by information supplied by the Department of Social Protection; to outline efforts to target this group with a view to encouraging greater uptake in the screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22835/24]

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

Róisín Shortall: 621. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the overall numbers of people aged 59 to 69 who are eligible for participation in the BowelScreen programme and who, as of the end of April 2024, have not been issued with a FIT test in the last two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22836/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of each of the 400 new special classes sanctioned for September 2024 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23131/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I said the Minister is commentating. He is in government.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to raise the issue of the long-awaited of the new national children's hospital, which cannot open soon enough. The understanding all along has been that there will be 380 beds in the facility. This week, Children's Health Ireland, CHI, released an update video about the hospital that in which reference was made to 300 beds. Can the Minister clarify if that was an error on the part...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thanks very much, Chair. I thank the Minister for his presentation. On Sláintecare and the reconfiguration of the HSE and the RHAs, one of the key principles of that proposal is that there would be objective resource allocation to each RHA. I am just checking. I take it the Minister supports the principle that we need to end the postcode lottery and ensure all resources are allocated...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister agree with the principle?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. Taking that principle of fair allocation of resources, when we look down through the existing hospital groups - and leaving aside CHI there are six hospital groups - we see that most of the hospital groups have two level four hospitals. Most of them have three level three hospitals. In fact, one hospital group has four level three hospitals. UHL is a complete outlier because it only...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but this point has been resisted for the last few years. It was blindingly obvious that there was an error made in the original reconfiguration of hospitals if there is one hospital group that does not have a level three hospital and therefore no ED. This has been resisted. Many of us have been raising this for quite some time and the Minister has resisted that and people are paying...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, if the Minister does not mind me interrupting I am talking about the current situation, the kind of level of resources that have been available to UHL up to now and the resistance at official and ministerial level to addressing that shortcoming of resources.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Can I just-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister likes quoting figures and I saw the report that was published recently by the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service. It is a good thing to measure activity because we have to ensure we get productivity. As the Minister said, that chart shows that UHL has gotten more resources cash-wise and staff-wise than any other hospital. I am sure the Minister will agree that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am not asking the Minister to do that.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Would the Minister accept that UHL, in terms of the kind of operating level and resources it has at its disposal, still is not even close to any of the other hospital groups?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Those figures I am quoting do not lie.

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chair. One of the things I have been trying to get my hands on for quite some time is details of the catchment population for each hospital group. I am sure the Minister has that available to him as does the HSE but it has not been made available publicly. Will the Minister give a commitment to provide those figures to us because again that is another matrix that allows...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, we know the history of this but it is the rationale for that, that clearly did not exist when the reconfiguration happened and it does not exist now. Why has there been resistance to accepting that?

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, that is the point we have been making for some time. And it is only very lately-----

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: -----that the Minister has conceded that point.