Results 17,521-17,540 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1240. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the national model of care for paediatric services for the transitioning plans for adolescents with spina bifida and hydrocephalus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17631/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1241. To ask the Minister for Health if multidisciplinary teams will be provided to patients with spina bifida and hydrocephalus in the new children’s hospital; the steps he is taking to ensure all children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus receive the same level of services in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin presently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17632/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1242. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the declaration of essential travel was removed from the passenger locator form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17633/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1243. To ask the Minister for Health if the rapid antigen testing will be implemented in schools; if so, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17634/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1244. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there was a significant drop in the number of persons in cohort 1 recorded as having received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine between 21 March 2021 and 22 March 2021, when the numbers fell from 107,168 to 95,916; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17635/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1245. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity of each of the five walk-in Covid-19 testing centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17636/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 1246. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to complaints from home care recipients that some agency carers have stopped wearing face masks after getting vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17637/21]

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I agree that the vaccination programme has the potential to be transformative, but only if it operates properly. I do not have confidence that it will operate properly. For probably the sixth week in a row, I ask the Minister to publish a plan for the roll-out of the vaccines. I agree with the points made earlier by Deputies. One sometimes wonders what the point is of coming in here on a...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It is important to remember that at the heart of this issue is that the State has been quite happy, down through the years and continuing to today, to fight children who have special needs and their families. This is about a denial of basic rights to people with special needs. If successive Governments had not pursued that policy, this would not have arisen. Despite the 2004 Act, the 2005...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the way in which she plans to address the anticipated increase in early school leavers in the area; if there are plans to provide more NEET supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a DEIS band 1 school (details supplied) which is set to lose a teacher despite increased enrolment for the 2021-2022 academic year; the way in which she plans to address this matter in view of the educational, social and economic disadvantage in the area; if she will review the threshold; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Food Poverty (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); the steps her Department is taking to address food poverty in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17788/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to address increased drug and alcohol misuse among young persons in an area (details supplied) particularly in the home; if additional supports and funding will be provided to community and youth services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17786/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of tests for Covid-19 undertaken daily in each of the walk-in testing centres since they opened; the positivity rate in each centre; if the positive cases from the walk-in clinics are being contact traced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of positive cases for Covid-19 that are contact traced; the number of days on average that contact tracing goes back to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18028/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the total population of agency nurses and healthcare assistants; the number of these who are vaccinated; the way in which the remainder will be identified for vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18026/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that arrived here in each week from 8 March 2021 to date and declared on the passenger locator form that they had been in one of the 33 designated states in the previous 14 days; the number from each designated state in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18027/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if the private security contractor overseeing compliance in mandatory hotel quarantine has expertise in or has had training specific to policing quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18029/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (1 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 371. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to comply with the request from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health that he make the senior counsel report on the allegations of a whistleblower (details supplied) available to the whistleblower immediately and publish it a few days later. [18050/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank our visitors for their presentation and for attending. I would like to check some of the figures. There was a stark, stand-out figure that the spending on the DTSS dropped by 36% between 2017 and 2020. How do the witnesses account for that? Has that been a problem on the part of the State or is it that fewer dentists are participating in the scheme?