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

Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Kelleher.

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

Róisín Shortall: I am listening to many other sessions here that it is very hard not to come to the conclusion that there is a very deliberate policy of privatisation at play. I do not know where that is coming from, whether it is at a political level or at a senior level within the Department of Health or the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. The level of outsourcing at the moment...

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

Róisín Shortall: It is where privatisation becomes a deliberate policy, if the public service is not funded. Interestingly, during Covid-19, the current Taoiseach, as Minister for Health then, and the previous Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, both said we needed to move to a new model of care for older people. They said the big commercial 200-bed nursing homes that are so sterile needed to change. Nothing has been...

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

Róisín Shortall: In regard to radiation therapists and the recommendation from the review for five tutors, is it now generally accepted now by the Department that there is a need for that number of tutors or is it disputing that?

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

Róisín Shortall: It is the usual thing. Why have a review if you are not going to follow the recommendations? Again, there seems to be a mindset there about outsourcing that is of real concern.

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

Róisín Shortall: It is madness to have valuable machines lying idle.

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

Róisín Shortall: To finish, will Ms Ní Sheaghdha tell us about the conversion rate? First of all, how many nursing posts are agency posts at the moment? What number is going to be converted this year? We had the chief nursing officer in speaking to us about that. What is the plan for conversion?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (3 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his planned amendment Bill to the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 to deal with outstanding matters, as committed to during Report and Final Stages of the 2024 Act; the timeline for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39544/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Your cynicism knows no bounds.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Taoiseach disagree with the ESRI?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an issue (details supplied) regarding insurance premiums for electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2025 (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm in relation to the vacant property refurbishment grant, whether or not the current level of funding is being maintained, or increased, as part of the Budget 2025 announcement, specifically whether the €40 million funding for the scheme is additional and/or specifically for 2025 only; the total level...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 383. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed penalty notices issued by An Garda Síochána in Dublin for exceeding the speed limit, broken down by Garda district, week of issue, and posted speed limit exceeded, for each week for the previous 60 weeks, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40204/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 491. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccine that will be on offer as part of the HSE’s autumn/winter vaccination campaign; if it will be a three-in-one vaccine (details supplied); if so, to whom this three-in-one vaccine will be offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39648/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the latest research and evidence informing the current Covid-19 booster vaccine campaign (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39649/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 614. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 28 February 2024, the status of his Department’s review of the pharmacy fee structure; the engagements he has had with an organisation (details supplied) in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40206/24]

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on mental health to mark mental health week. This session is overlapping in a health committee meeting where we are dealing with legislation so I am afraid I will have to leave after I speak and I will not be able to stay for the Minister of State's wrap-up.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: For too long, mental health difficulties were seen as a personal failure and something to hide or be ashamed of. I think we are all familiar with those days, which I hope are becoming more distant. While that damaging misconception is changing, which is a welcome development, underlying stigma persists, particularly self-stigma. Last December, St. Patrick's annual attitudes survey found...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The development board has been before the committee several times, as the Minister will be aware, and it has appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts several times. Both committees have been utterly frustrated for a long time, because every time the board came to speak to us, its members were throwing their hands in the air and seemed completely helpless. There was a stand-off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise for interrupting. Time is ticking. What was the upshot of the meeting?