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

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach should look at the special categories.

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

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach send me a note because I do not think what he is saying is correct? Will he do that?

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Legislative Measures (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 125. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No, 189 of 6 October 2020, if he will consider legislative measures so that workers are not at a loss in terms of light, heat and waste bills due to having to work and study at home in view of such a scheme in Spain (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30949/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 606 of 6 October 2020, if she will supply a copy of headquarters directive 75/2014; if this directive is used for all reports of potential suicide for An Garda Síochána; and if there are alternative protocols in place. [30951/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30950/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 566. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to reintroducing automatic renewal of medical cards in view of the rising cases of Covid-19 and increased restrictions nationwide. [30952/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 697. To ask the Minister for Health the face-covering regulations in place for retail and food service workers; the enforcement body that either a worker or a member of public can contact if he or she has concerns regarding the implementation of the regulations in terms of the safety of workers and the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31492/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 751. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding that has been provided to his Department’s drug and alcohol strategy Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery: A health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025, since its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31650/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date towards increasing the frequency of nursing home inspections as recommended in the nursing homes expert panel report, which recommended the immediate increase from the base of 22 inspectors overseeing 576 facilities with a visit frequency of 18 months; the action that is planned; the timeline for same; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 750. To ask the Minister for Health when funding to support the delivery of community action on alcohol announced in budget 2021 will be made available; the way the funding will be distributed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31649/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give consideration to concerns raised by a union (details supplied) and school principals regarding the need to extend the planned class size reductions in order that DEIS band one senior schools, DEIS band one junior and vertical schools are included in the measure; if she will meet with the union to discuss same; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Multi-Unit Developments (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the powers of homeowners and management companies under the provisions of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 and related legislation, in relation to management agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 242. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 459 of 15 September 2020, 133 of 7 October 2020 and 174 of 14 October 2020, if his Department 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: What is the purpose of the meeting and who are we proposing to invite in? There is basic information that we need. We all have lists of people such as science graduates, GPs and many other people well qualified to do it who applied months ago but have not been called. We need a response on that. There is also a view that, at this point, when we get to 1,000 cases a day, those cannot be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Why can we not have a time agreed now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That is just not on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: People should not have to be hanging around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: On the meeting next week, it is not just the HSE. It predominantly deals with the testing and has overall responsibility for tracing but it is important to separate the two. Tracing is predominantly the job of public health experts. With some of this stuff, when one asks Mr. Paul Reid a question about testing and tracing, he says public health or NPHET instructs the HSE on what to do. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I thank all our guests. I will concentrate on the issue of public health. Probably before last March, very few people knew there was such a thing as public health. From the point of view of prioritisation and resourcing in the health service, public health was exceptionally under-resourced. If we have learned anything from the past seven or eight months, it must be that we must...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 - Part 5: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats supported the Act passed earlier in the year. In theory, we are happy to do so again, but it is very difficult to come to a definitive position on it given the lack of information. The proposals in the Act are very wide-ranging and have the potential to cause difficulties. It would have been helpful for some kind of assessment of the impact of the measures to date to...