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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (13 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30333/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of approved posts for adult and paediatric audiologists; the number of posts filled; the number of posts vacant by community healthcare organisation, CHO, area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29723/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 466. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for improving access to treatment for persons with gambling addictions; if he will consider the results of a study of the nine community healthcare organisation, CHO, regions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29724/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 459 of 15 September 2020 and 133 of 7 October 2020, if she will provide a sample showing the exact format of the medical certificate required to certify that a secondary school student falls into one of the categories for a face covering exemption; if a copy of this sample medical certificate will appear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome all our guests. I think Deputy Durkan and I are the only two who were on the Committee on the Future of Healthcare, which addressed Sláintecare. I cast my mind back to those cross-party deliberations over an 11 month period with 14 Deputies. The issue that came up most frequently during those deliberations was the fact that the organisation of the HSE is disjointed and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There is no timeline on decisions. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: What is the timeline for decisions to be made in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Magahy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I referred to removal of cost as a barrier to accessing care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Seanad was not sitting when the committee was set up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I have been asking the Taoiseach for some time now to consider taking an all-party approach to the response to Covid. It is really regrettable that he did not take up that proposal because we found ourselves yesterday in a situation in which a momentous decision was taken yet there was no consultation whatsoever with Opposition parties or party leaders, no sharing of data and no sharing of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: No, that was a briefing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I did not say anything about blame.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach answer the two questions I asked?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach answer my questions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate the Taoiseach answering my questions rather than continuing his row with Sinn Féin. That has nothing to do with me. I asked him two questions. I asked him about the provisions whereby single people cannot have visitors to their homes. They cannot have even one visitor to their homes. That is unreasonable. The Government has made a very small number of exceptions...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about high-risk individuals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am going by what is on the gov.iewebsite. I am talking about people who live alone, who may work at home and who are not allowed to have even a single visitor to their homes. That is what I want the Taoiseach to address, not the high-risk categories but regular people who live alone. What the Government is doing in this regard is unreasonable. The second question relates to what people...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach send me a note on that because on the website it is different?