Results 18,761-18,780 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about high-dependency hostels; I am referring to residential facilities that have round-the-clock nursing care. I am asking what is the level of need that the HSE has assessed to serve the population in east Cork?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: That is a different facility-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: -----to residential facilities. A high-support hostel is a different facility to a residential facility.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: My final question is on the existing site. The HSE does not appear to have specific proposals for the use of the site. There is general talk about the possibility of housing. Why has the HSE not proposed a replacement 24-hour staffed residence for that site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: We are discussing Owenacurra Centre and the needs of the current and future residents there. I am sure that Mr. Fitzgerald would accept that best practice is that in a long-stay facility, residents in that facility would be integrated into the local community, as they are in Owenacurra.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome all our witnesses. Mr. Woods mentioned a shift in the operating model during the last plan bringing us up to this year. I think it was for the period 2016 to this year. In terms of developing mobile service, what is the assessment regarding the progress made on that and its implications? How has this shift gone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: What percentage of paramedics would be higher-qualified community paramedics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Are there proposals to increase that number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Have training places been created?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: How many additional training places have been created?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: How many additional training places are there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: So Dr. O'Donnell is talking about additional training places from next September or October.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: How long is that additional training course?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: So it will be some time before those people come on stream. Regarding resources and what Ms Anne O'Connor said about the need for 90 ambulances and 180 staff, to what period does that calculation relate? Is it to bring the service up to standard currently or to cater for the projected demand of 107%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Over what period will that level of staff be required?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: There is a shortfall of more than 1,000 staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: In terms of projecting forward and the kind of increase in demand for service that has been set out up to 2027, which is only five years from now, what are the additional numbers that would be required over that five-year period? Has that been estimated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: What are the plans for providing those 2,000 extra staff? What is the timescale involved?