Results 23,761-23,780 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Why is that not being prioritised for funding? The children's hospital will not be opened this year. We have been talking about having a patient identifier since 2015.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The Department, or at least the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, does not agree with Mr. Devane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: This is a case that needs to be made strongly to the Government-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I will raise a couple of issues before we finish up. Obviously, the employment pause or embargo is having a major impact on services. However, there are a few areas in which the board and the HSE can address some issues where there seems to be either confusion or a lack of action by the HSE. The first of those is on the workforce planning front. It is hard to understand why the HSE has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I have a letter from the HSE two weeks ago telling me that the posts were caught in the embargo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Devane. The last area relates to public health nurses. There is a huge shortage of public health nurses, who provide a really important preventative service. Obviously, there is the whole area of screening for newborns and children. There are big tracts of the country in which those screenings are not taking place, especially in disadvantaged areas. There are also services...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are all very welcome. I commend them on the important work they are doing in all of the centres in supporting people through the cancer journey. It is no surprise that their work is recognised in the NCCP because it is so important that, from start to finish, that kind of support is available to people. The regrettable thing is that it is not available to people everywhere in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is just this year that the centres have come together.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: With regard to the €3 million, were they all separate allocations made to centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: How is the divvying out decided?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The €3 million was routed through the NCCP.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I take it that the NCCP would fully support the alliance's pre-budget application this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Would the NCCP agree with the kind of figure the witnesses are talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Given the importance of the support work the centres do, would the NCCP have any role in starting centres in areas that do not have them? I am looking at Dublin because I am a Dublin TD. There are many areas of Dublin that do not have centres, and I am sure the same applies all over the country. There is a big element of postcode lottery. Would the NCCP be initiating or recommending new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is a patchwork.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Staff difficulties, pay rates and that kind of thing were mentioned. What staff would typically be employed in the centres?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----and it would seem it has not been. I thank the Chair.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: 180. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 1 May 2024, if an implementation group (details supplied) has completed its work; if the group has submitted its report to the Minister; the membership of that group; the stakeholders engaged during targeted engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24199/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocation to each HSE and public voluntary hospital in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form. [24574/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: 266. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 18 April 2024, the status of the strategic review of radiation therapy which commenced in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24575/24]