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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise with the Taoiseach today the crisis in healthcare staff recruitment, specifically the crisis in recruitment of hospital doctors, and the serious implications for patient safety and the future of the health service. Currently there are 450 vacant consultant posts. Even if all of these posts were filled we would still have the lowest number of consultants per capitain the OECD....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach seems to be in denial about the facts of the matter. Ireland has the lowest number of consultants per capitabut is the highest exporter of doctors. We are the highest importers in the world of foreign doctors and there are huge problems associated with this. A number of those problems have been identified in this high level HSE report, access to which we have had only through...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: That is Jesuitical.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach commit to publishing it this week?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The Government is in charge of the HSE.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The Government has promised for some time to address the issue of scramblers and quad bikes, which are a real scourge in many housing estates. They are becoming an increasing problem. People out walking in recreational areas and facilities and in housing estates are being threatened by the widespread and illegal use of these vehicles. A number of Deputies have been raising this issue for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: That is not what the Garda is saying.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes developed since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; the number of new apprenticeships developed since 2017; the number of apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; if he will consider equality of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 251. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to difficulties posed to bereavement counsellors by GDPR in respect of precluding them from contacting family members of persons that have died in hospices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28488/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 913 of 10 July 2018, the outcome of the review by the Local Government Management Agency of the common recruitment pool; and the actions he has taken on foot of the review. [28328/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Last week, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue in the Murray report on the difficulties in recruiting hospital doctors and he undertook to speak to the Minister for Health about its publication. Since then, the report has been published on Twitter by Susan Mitchell and, therefore, it is a bit of a joke for the Minister to sit on that report, as he is doing on many other reports such as the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on concerns raised by the Ombudsman relating to persons being denied access to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme on the basis that they have been refused primary medical certificates and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29162/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs available at the marginal rate of tax; and the estimated saving in 2020 and in a full year if these were standard rated. [29663/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the Greystones district who have not received an offer of a secondary school place for September 2020 to date; the options available to parents of such children in order that they can be assured of a place; and if the opening of the proposed secondary school planned for Greystones for 2021 will be brought forward to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda divisions that have and have not respectively a specialised unit to deal with cases of sexual violence. [29724/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres to be provided over the next ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29190/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 497. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 201 of 19 June 2018 and 345 of 5 February 2019, if the HSE will consider using the draft HSE staff breastfeeding in the workplace policy as an interim measure for staff with immediate effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29867/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the removal of mature trees by developers on a building site during the nesting season; if an exemption is in place in this regard; if written permission must be in place before the trees are felled; the fines in place in circumstances in which trees are felled illegally; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 696. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of refuge places for families that have experienced domestic violence by county or local authority. [29725/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (9 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 869. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of each change to planning rules affecting the size of proposed basements in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30038/19]