Results 23,821-23,840 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 754.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned satellite hemodialysis unit at Ennis General Hospital; the timeline for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25007/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 755.To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure that patients with chronic auto-immune disorders such as Sjögren's disease have access to appropriate and affordable dental care; his plans to reform the DTSS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 796.To ask the Minister for Health if the frequency and capacity of Dental Council’s registration examination for non-EEA dentists will be increased, in view of the fact that the exam is currently only held once a year and is oversubscribed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25176/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 853.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for approval and publication of the HSE’s Digital Health Strategic Implementation Roadmap 2024-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25368/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 854.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE’s savings target of €80 million on agency staff through the conversion of this staff to HSE employees, as outlined in the HSE Service Plan 2024; if a derogation from the HSE recruitment freeze will be sanctioned to progress this conversion of staff; if discussions with his Department have commenced; the status of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 855.To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff who have been converted to HSE employees to date in 2024, under the €80 million agency savings target outlined in the HSE Service Plan 2024, by role, in tabular form. [25370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 877.To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 to prohibit the practice outlined in correspondence (details supplied); if the HSE referred this matter to his Department; if so, to outline the actions he or his officials have taken since then; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25551/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach will recall that as Minister for Health in 2017 he committed to introduce a statutory right to home care. In 2020, he said the scheme was nearly ready and the new Government would introduce it. Here we are, four years later, and we are no nearer to having a statutory scheme for home care. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, admitted as much last week when she said the nut...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will probably be done by then. I welcome this debate on the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024, which I am taking in the place of my colleague, Deputy Jennifer Whitmore. I am disappointed the Bill has been drastically pared back, so much so that only seven of the children's committee’s 96 pre-legislative scrutiny recommendations are now relevant to the legislation before us....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to two first-time passport applications (details supplied) and issues relating to the expected date of issue; if these applications can be expedited given the date of travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26022/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (18 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 366. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on development of the National Sexual Health Strategy 2023-2030; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26117/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (18 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 377. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 877 of 11 June 2024, the timeline he is working towards for introducing regulations to ban a promotional practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26237/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 119. To ask the Minister for Health if he will honour his predecessor's commitment to provide five additional clinical practice tutor posts for radiation therapy to increase the number of college places for students in the coming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26419/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse posts in each LHO, in tabular form. [26418/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Exemptions (20 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 202. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reply by the Minister for Finance to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 11 June 2024; his further views on whether the VAT exemption for counsellors and psychotherapists should be implemented ahead of the opening of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board; if he is pursuing this position with the Department of Finance; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to pick up on that point. The most disappointing aspect of this legislation is that it does not provide for the long-promised statutory right to home care. I was just reading the history of that promise yesterday and I saw that in 2017, the current Taoiseach, as Minister for Health, committed to the introduction of a statutory right to home care. That was 2017. In 2020, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Why does the Department not have that breakdown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is not just about the authorisation scheme presumably. Its involves the providers and the categorisation and oversight of providers. Surely whoever is responsible for the oversight of this knows the different sectors that are providing that care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Department does not have a breakdown.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate it if the Department could bring that along. The 37% is directly employed-----