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Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Who will do those checks?

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: By whom?

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Can we see that detail? It is very hard to understand.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: We do not know who will police it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Data (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the long-term illness scheme aged under 16 years of age by LHO in each of the years 2008 to 2016. [43690/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Data (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of the GMS, drugs payment scheme and the long term illness scheme, respectively by local health office area in each of the years 2008 to 2011. [43691/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 350 of 15 October 2019, when the considerations of his Department of the HSE Valproate response project report will be completed; when the report will be published; if a copy will be made available to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43754/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise because I had to be elsewhere earlier. The jury is probably out on the Chairman's point that private health insurance subsidises the public system, as I am not sure whether anybody has established which system is subsidising which. As Chairman of the committee on the future of healthcare, I want to say a very special thanks to Dr. de Buitléir who carried out the tasks set...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. It is clear that a great deal of work has been done on the detailed planning for the implementation of Sláintecare and the outworking of many aspects of the recommendations. That is commendable. The missing piece is the funding required to make these recommendations happen in the short term as opposed to stretching out over future years,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Will that model be ready for the allocation of the 1,000 posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The additional staff will not be used just to reduce waiting lists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Can Mr. Sullivan answer the question about the GP contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: It is not a part of the contract but is anything happening on the commitment to introduce that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, I believe it was ten.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I did not get a reply to my question on legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Does that mean legislation will be introduced in two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: That is an unnecessary delay. Our fears about departmental capture are being realised.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The ongoing debacle around the national children's hospital would make one despair. It is not only the children's hospital. One must despair at the State's ability to deliver a major infrastructure project some way on budget and on time. Successive Governments have failed to do that and to have basic respect for public money down through the years. When the Office of Government...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

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