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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 16 June 2016, to address the question in respect of publishing or otherwise setting out the legal advice available to his Department in respect of repealing section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000. [17704/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Graduate Medicine Programme Fees (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby banks are refusing to make student finance available to those wishing to study graduate entry medicine, as the remuneration newly qualified doctors are in receipt of is insufficient to cover the cost of the repayment of this debt; if he will consider introducing a student loan scheme for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby the student debt burden on those qualifying from graduate entry medicine is so great that many are being forced to emigrate to secure remuneration that will allow them to make repayments, and that many of these newly qualified doctors cannot afford the Irish Medical Organisation registration fee; if...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank my proposer, seconder and all the members of the committee for their support for me to be Chairperson. The committee is taking on a big task and it will work to a very tight timescale. However, it is a challenging and an exciting prospect for us to take a step back from the daily and myriad issues that affect the health service and to consider the bigger picture in terms of the type...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We can come back to that later.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank everyone for their contributions. There is a general theme running through all of them and there is a lot of enthusiasm and ambition for the health service in the room. Perhaps our fault as politicians over the years has been that we have been fatalistic about the health service and that there was a sense that it was a hopeless case. However, I very much get a sense that people...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We do not have a definite date for when the Dáil will go into recess.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Five. There is a significant overlap.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. Is there a date set for the other committee to meet yet?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We will ask the secretariat to work on that, bearing in mind the points made this morning about membership of other committees.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We will keep that in mind.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I heard your suggestion about the committee breaking up into smaller working groups and dealing with elements of the task. We should hold off on that. It is a good suggestion, but we will start with the overarching presentation and briefing, then look at how we might proceed. A huge number of groups are certainly very keen to come before the committee. We have to be very careful about...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Clearly, any member here is free to meet whoever they wish outside, but we ask you to be mindful that you are not being used as a conduit for different lobby groups to put pressure on you to feed their views back into the committee. I ask you to be conscious of that. Obviously people will meet whoever they wish, but we have a very clear remit with regard to the bigger picture, being...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It is clear that we need a structured means of stakeholder consultation. I know the clerk has expertise in that area. I am asking him to bring proposals to the committee on how we might go about doing that. Initially, if members receive a request for a meeting from a particular group, this should be referred to the secretariat. We need to consider how we can do that in a structured way.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Members will see in their packs a document from the ESRI entitled Challenges in Achieving Universal Healthcare in Ireland, which would be useful for members to read before the groups come before us.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Election of Chairman (23 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Deputy Daly for his contribution. I suggest we go into private session to discuss our meeting times. I am also keen to have a discussion on the budget available for research work. Is that agreed? Agreed.

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to this debate. While of the news of the vote last Friday morning has superseded everything else happening in this country and in Europe and it is an issue we must address urgently in the House, in many ways it is too early to do that today. People throughout Europe are still reeling at the decision. It is a surprise, given that there was an...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: It is important to say at the outset that if this Bill is passed as it currently stands, it will not end religious discrimination in our schools. The purpose of this Bill has been cited in media reports as "seeking an amendment to the Equal Status Act to allow equal access to Catholic schools whether baptised or not". It has to be said that this Bill would do nothing of the sort. It would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Anti-Social Behaviour (28 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the difficulties for An Garda Síochána in policing anti-social activity associated with public drinking in view of the fact that this is not currently an offence and by-laws vary in this regard depending on the local authority, harbour authority, transport authority, and so on; and the steps she will take to address...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Services for People with Disabilities (28 Jun 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 203. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the obligations on the part of public houses that also serve food to provide wheelchair-accessible toilet facilities for customers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18270/16]