Results 12,461-12,480 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Therefore, we are talking about in excess of 500 consultants who are working in one or more private hospitals as well as in public hospitals.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: It is a long working week. Where is there oversight of the hours worked?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Are there further questions from Deputy John Brassil on whether private hospitals engage with community services, social services and so on?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Once patients are gone from private hospitals, they are gone. I cannot see them interfacing much with community care services.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Private hospitals do not link with community care services, apart from GPs.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. Fitzgerald was invited to comment honestly, if he was prepared to do so, in comparing the two systems.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Which hospital does not publish its accounts?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: There are two factors that must be borne in mind - the complexity of the work done in the public system and the fact that accountability processes in the public sector are not what they should be. I believe we all accept this. There were a couple of other questions from Deputy Joan Collins. The delegates have answered the queries about shareholders. It is information that is publicly...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: There is tax relief on insurance premiums.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: What does Mr. Fitzgerald mean by his biggest bill?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: What is it for?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: It covers all services.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: There are two more speakers, Deputies Pat Buckley and Louise O'Reilly.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: The point has been made that the insurance industry has indicated that it will not fund further private hospitals.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Throughout the morning, we have been very conscious of the dearth of data for the witnesses' operations. We are seeking as far as possible to base our decision making on evidence and it is hard to do that when there is no comparative data between public and private. The witnesses have been requested to provide information on a number of different areas. It is entirely up to them as private...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: Earlier this month, the Master of the High Court criticised the Government for failing to protect people who are facing the repossession of their homes. He said that under EU consumer law, our courts are required to examine each mortgage contract, regardless of whether the defendant is in court, to ascertain whether its terms are unfair. His claim is that county registrars, as agents of the...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste's response is just not good enough. I asked her a specific question about Mr. Honohan's criticisms and her potentially inaccurate response to a parliamentary question I tabled on Tuesday. I would expect that the veracity of a reply to a parliamentary question on an issue like this would have been checked before it was issued. Under the European Court of Justice ruling,...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste is repeating the inaccuracy.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)
Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste is wrong.