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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Is there an estimate of the level of chronic disease management that is currently taking place in hospitals? What is the split between hospitals and the community setting?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: No, most definitely not.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: You referred earlier to the many perverse incentives within the funding model of the health service at present. How does one deal with an issue where it makes absolute sense from a patient's and a financial point of view to move a service out? A key decision must be taken by the hospital whereby it says it is prepared to give somebody X amount of money to do something in the community....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: That is a lot of extra work for the GP.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but there is a huge amount of additional work for the general practitioner, GP.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: There is a hugely increased workload and this must be recognised within the new contract.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The other aspect about which I am interested is the role of the Health Service Executive, HSE, in this regard. While it is fine to state activity will be switched to the community, unless the other allied health processionals - apart from GPs and practice nurses - are available and unless the primary care teams are adequately staffed, the care cannot happen in that setting. In working with...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: At an early stage in our work, we were advised that we should recommend the establishment of a project management office to have in place a unit charged with responsibility for the implementation of whatever recommendations emerge from this committee. Such an overarching body with a focus on bringing about change is lacking at present.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We seek the figures in respect of the ratios.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, that issue is coming up repeatedly.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: That is a strong point we all will take on board. I also note the college is appearing before the committee shortly. On that point, I will bring this highly successful session, in which members learned a great deal, to a conclusion. The witnesses invited the committee down to visit to see at first hand and we might consider so doing. It certainly is highly impressive and members would...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Unemployment Data (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 63. To ask the Taoiseach his estimate of the number of persons currently without a job but not included in the live register figures. [24661/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to bring forward legislation to combat the spread of so-called revenge pornography in line with best international practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26696/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 191. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on 6 September 2016 regarding a proposed amendment to section 110 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, the anticipated yield from this measure in each of the next five years. [26949/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 205. To ask the Minister for Finance the current VAT rate charged for the repair of goods, for example, white goods, bicycles and so on; and his estimate of the cost of reducing the VAT rate charged to the next lowest VAT bracket. [27199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of interest applied to persons who defer their local property tax; and the cost to the Exchequer in 2017, 2018 and in 2019, respectively, for every percentage point reduction in this rate. [27525/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary schools operating book rental schemes by county, in tabular form; and the efforts made by his Department to encourage the uptake of such schemes. [26660/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Centre Network (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of funding allocations from his Department to an institution (details supplied) in Dublin 9 over each of the past three years; if he will provide details of proposed changes to this years budget as recently indicated by the TES section of his Department; the rationale for these changes; and the implications for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of EAL posts in each county for each school year since 2012-13, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27471/16]