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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I appreciate that but I need to hear what is happening now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The Cabinet today approved the patient safety (licensing) Bill. It is long-awaited legislation and one we very much welcome, but will there be minimum staffing numbers in that critical legislation? The INMO has been campaigning on this for a long time. On cervical cancer, I hosted the 221+ group last week. We saw reports at the weekend that cervical screening is still failing women....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 4. To ask the Minister for Health if she will act to protect front-line healthcare workers impacted by long Covid and who are in receipt of the special scheme of paid leave; if she plans to extend this scheme or recognise long Covid as an occupational illness to quality for occupational injury benefit payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34984/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister knows, the scheme for special leave for those who contracted long Covid is due to expire on in four days on 30 June. A total of 166 section 38 organisations and HSE employees are currently in receipt of this payment. To be frank, the response to date has been downright disrespectful and degrading to those who gave so much and risked so much at a time of such uncertainty and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister knows, people's lives have been turned upside down by long Covid. This is not any ordinary type of illness. This was contracted in the workplace, yet there has been a persistent refusal by this State, in sharp contrast to the vast majority of EU member states, to recognise Covid as an occupational illness. The refusal to extend this scheme or to put in place a long-term...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: With respect, the Government is splitting hairs in distinguishing between Covid-19 and long Covid. Clearly, long Covid resulted from Covid-19. The reality is that the request has been for a framework to be put in place to support these specific workers. We are only talking about health workers. We are not talking about gardaí or the many other front-line workers who went out to work...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 6. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to strengthen the inspection and regulatory regime in HIQA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34932/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: We are all reeling from the revelations about Beneavin nursing home and the nursing home in Portlaoise in recent weeks. It is clear that HIQA has given a wide berth to nursing homes when it comes to its inspection regime, which is in sharp contrast, I might argue, to how other authorities regulate, such as the Food Safety Authority and the Health and Safety Authority. I wish to hear from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. There are four clear systemic issues within HIQA at the moment, notwithstanding that it is a much-trusted institution in the public's mind. That confidence has been dented, however. Clear legislative change and clarity are needed in four areas. The first issue is in regard to the licensing. I welcome what the Minister is saying about the licensing of corporate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is an added piece with regard to leadership. In the responses at the health committee last week, in the instance of Beneavin nursing home, there is 100% non-compliance with fire safety systems in that building. We were told that it does not relate to the structure, but rather only to the fire systems. If the fires systems are not fully operational, there is an immediate fire risk....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community nursing home beds specifically available to individuals with Alzheimer's, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided from the years 2020 to 2025 for the employment of HSE-salaried general practitioners, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether consideration has been given to lifting the mandatory retirement age of 70 for school transport providers for children with special education needs, or to a temporary lifting of the age limit of 70 for drivers to ensure continuity of service to children with special education needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 720. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of funding to local authorities under the play and recreation capital funding scheme in the years 2020 to 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 764. To ask the Minister for Health if the national treatment purchase fund engaged individually or collectively with nursing homes (details supplied) during 2024; the basis on which they calculated the funds that could be paid to the homes through the HSE administered nursing home support scheme and if the NTPF, at any stage in the negotiation process, examined the books of the group or of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 765. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority reviewed the evidence regarding the operation of a nursing home group (details supplied) in France before deciding on registering any of their nursing homes in Ireland; and, if so, if they decided on any special oversight measures as a condition of registration or reregistration of nursing homes linked to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 766. To ask the Minister for Health who she believes is responsible for the signing of contracts for care of residents in nursing homes who lack capacity to make the decision to sign. [33722/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical governance arrangements that are planned to enable HSE clinical supports be provided to private nursing homes in the context of the development of the six HSE health regions. [33724/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if the common assessment approach to the needs of older people known as InterRAI is fully operational across all six HSE health regions; and if the electronic version piloted with co-funding from an organisation (details supplied) almost a decade ago forms part of this process. [33725/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Usage (24 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 840. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on how often KPI data from the National Cancer Control Programme online portal is updated; its intended use; who the KPI data is shared with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34193/25]