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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Are there any permanent representatives on the board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: -----expertise on contract law?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Cian O'Callaghan. The budget will be remembered as one of missed opportunities. It is kind of like a giveaway on steroids and is certainly grabbing the headlines; there is no doubt about that. We have lots of breathless reporting of the gargantuan surplus figure, that €25 billion, and the complex array of one-off measures. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if the new national drugs strategy will pay due attention to alcohol relative to its impact on Irish life, on the health service, on the criminal justice system, on education, on road safety and on workplace productivity; if he believes a standalone national alcohol strategy would be a better means of addressing these issues; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Good morning everyone. A lot of what Ms Ní Sheaghdha has said seems to be black and white, and it should be straightforward, where decisions were made and undertakings were given. With regard to the judgment or ruling from the WRC in May, what exactly did it say with regard to recalibrating the numbers, and did it instruct that this should be done within a certain timeline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Was there an acceptance from the HSE that those figures were right? It was not denying the fact that it used the wrong figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, so it accepts that there is a need for recalibration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does Ms Ní Sheaghdha know what happened the €150 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Was that an allocation made by the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, and that has not been implemented. That is another interesting question for us to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, okay. With regard to the safe staffing framework, what are the implementation arrangements for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry. Is there an oversight mechanism for that implementation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: In the context of the figures relating to the unfilled posts required under the safe staffing framework, is there a schedule of unfilled posts across various services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: So much for a move to the community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha. On radiation therapists, it was said that there are four closed cancer treatment machines and three CT scanners are currently closed. This committee had a prolonged discussion with the HSE some weeks ago about the need to max out all of the expensive equipment and that it makes no sense to leave it idle. What is happening to those patients who are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There is further outsourcing of services that are supposed to be public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: My understanding is that Trinity College was happy to create additional training or study places. Why did that not go ahead? Was there an issue with clinical placements?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Trinity was prepared to create those additional places if the tutors were provided.