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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Provision (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the process for widows to obtain new PPS numbers or reactivate their old PPS numbers on the passing of their husbands can be improved in order to provide a better service for them; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there have been some delays for processing such requests; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 483. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a community safety partnership (details supplied) will be retained following the establishment of the community safety innovation fund; and if the current arrangements will continue. [23219/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with an institute (details supplied) regarding its offer for members of the institute to be added to the list of authorised persons in regulation 4F of SI No. 698 of 2020 in order to help with the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22715/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the status and timeline for publication of draft changes to the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22719/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Treatment Services (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 576. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 17 December 2020, if HSE community healthcare west has signed a lease for an alcohol treatment centre in Galway and will begin taking clients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22913/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 654. To ask the Minister for Health if a child under the age of 16 years must enter mandatory hotel quarantine if coming into the country from a designated country and accompanied by fully vaccinated parents or guardians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23218/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I will not be shortening my time. I thank Mr. Watt and he is welcome. It is unsatisfactory that we have not got responses to requests for information from Mr. Watt and the Minister. There is a lot of information outstanding and it is likely that we will be asking Mr. Watt to return when we have in our possession that information and those responses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: My time is limited. I know what Mr. Watt has sent us and I also know there is a lot of outstanding information. I am making the point that the likelihood is that we will be asking Mr. Watt to return. I am leaving it at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am not getting into the detail of that. I am just saying there is outstanding information and we will be returning to this. I will start with Mr Watt's opening statement. He makes seven categorical points. I am interested in points 6 and 7, where he states: There is no evidence the Department of Health sought updates or reports on plaintiffs directly from schools or the Department of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am just asking Mr. Watt about his statement because people would not expect that the Department of Health would be going directly to a clinician asking for information. There are steps along the way from the HSE local area manager and so on. Is Mr. Watt saying that those two statements would be true if the word "indirectly" was in there as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am short of time and I want to ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: -----if it is accurate to say that Mr. Watt did not seek information indirectly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am asking Mr. Watt about the statement he made this morning. Is he saying it would be true to say he did not seek information indirectly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I refer to the allegations made on the programme. The whistleblower talked about an email seeking information and explaining to a doctor that the Department was involved in litigation with one of her patients and asking for information. We are told that was part of a template letter that was issued to HSE doctors, which explicitly asked that neither the family or their solicitors would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Why does the Department have a template letter going to doctors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: The template letter explicitly asks that neither the family or the solicitors be contacted about the request.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: The core of it is that the Department is asking a HSE manager for a service update, knowing that information will have to be requested from a doctor or therapist.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I would like more information on that because it is hard to know how a case manager would have access to that information without contacting a therapist or doctor directly. I am concerned about the dormant cases and a lot of the points Mr. Watt makes are valid about cases that are live. Why is it that Mr. Watt was putting all this time and energy into cases that were dormant? Many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: And what was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Others will decide that. What was the intention?