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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Hopefully we will see all that coming on stream. My questions are on what is going to happen immediately and how quickly can the many, many children who are on that waiting list be seen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: But that is not sufficient. The point has been made that those theatres are lying idle at the weekends. Why can we not open up those theatres and do what Professor McCormack has suggested and what he did himself, two years ago? Why can we not take that kind of can-do approach in maximising the use of existing theatres rather than all of this talking about building projects for the future?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: How can they be facilitated to work on Saturdays and Sundays?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: What is Ms Kelly going to do to make that happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: There would be an interest in hearing from our witnesses precisely what they are going to do about that and the timescale involved. We would welcome more detail on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: This is my very final question, Chairman. Many parents have said to me that because of the chaotic nature of the waiting lists and of course the fact that we have a two-tier health service, they have to borrow or get money somewhere in order to see a consultant privately as an outpatient in order to get on the public inpatient waiting list. Is this the case and what are our witnesses going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Will that not continue as long as there is a shortage of consultants? It is estimated we are about seven or eight consultants short of what we need for a standard ratio.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but that is not happening. How will the witnesses make it happen so we have more paediatric consultants available to provide these critical services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Is the issue not training?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: You are not training enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I accept what Ms Hardiman is saying about planning but why are we only talking about it now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: When will the additional training posts be available?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: That is the last question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I just do not know what we are doing to attract those people. That seems to be where the logjam is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: We cannot wait that long, unfortunately.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (25 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has engaged with other countries in respect of Sustainable Development Goal 3 of the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58229/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 3 November 2021, if there are plans in place for the provision of in-school teaching for children in ASD classes in mainstream schools in the event of school closures which may occur as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; if such plans have been agreed to by all of the education partners; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (25 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the policy and practice in respect of home help and home care workers who are not vaccinated; if clients who do not wish to have unvaccinated workers in their home and providing personal care are facilitated with alternative staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58124/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements for the provision of Covid-19 booster vaccinations to those who have received a vaccination (details supplied) in respect of the advice for these to be provided after three months of their original vaccine; the location in which these vaccinations will take place; if persons will need to register or if they will be contacted directly; and...