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- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: No, just to be clear on it.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: We have seen the NTPF balloon from €55 million in 2018 to €230 million in 2025. The largest percentage increase of all the spending heads is to the NTPF, with a 130% increase. I get that temporary allocations are now being made permanent. We saw what has happened in Beaumont Hospital. I have serious concerns about the operation of the NTPF. What actions is the Minister...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: This involves sanctioning directly employed staff in those hospitals.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: Is it budgeted for in the accounts for the 2025 allocation or otherwise?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: With regard to the savings and productivity task force, I heard what the Minister said on cumulative savings of €633 million. I would like to see a breakdown for the 2025 targets. The Minister detailed the 2024 savings to a certain extent. I want to understand the agency figures. As Deputy Cullinane and the Labour Party have elicited from parliamentary questions, the agency spend...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. I am conscious that I have only a few seconds left. I want to ask about the shortfall of €250 million. There are cumulative savings of €633 million to be arrived at by the end of this year. We can argue about the rights and wrongs of this. The Minister has also identified that she needs to make up a gap or shortfall of €250 million in terms of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: Is there any possible relaxation or change to the guidelines?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025) Marie Sherlock: Regarding capital investment, there is an awful lot riding on the NDP review. The increase this year was a paltry €226 million. What conversations have taken place with the Department of public expenditure regarding procurement rules? That appears to be a major blocker with regards to the major projects above €200 million. I wholeheartedly agree with the Minister with...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: When will the Government publish the long-awaited policy framework on the use of commercial drones in this country? It was due in 2023. It is now 2025 and we still have nothing. All the while, Government Ministers, when abroad on trade missions, have been promoting Ireland as a destination for unmanned aircraft or drones. Of course, drones can have a positive impact, particularly in the...
- GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: In Ulysses, James Joyce referred to O'Connell Street from the GPO to Parnell Street as "the dead side of the street." Some 102 years on, not much has changed. Indeed, things have got worse if we think of the wasteland of the Carlton Cinema site and Moore Street, where the top floors of many buildings are held up by bricks. I thank Sinn Féin and an Teachta Ó Snodaigh for this...
- Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — investigative journalism by RTÉ has again exposed distressing and unacceptable practices and conditions in private Irish nursing homes, 20 years on since the Leas Cross scandal; — the failure of the State to provide sufficient public long term residential care places has led to the growing privatisation of nursing home...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: 85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider expanding the requirements of the labour market needs test to include roles advertised on the Public Appointments Service, in order to fulfil the requirement for a general employment permit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36619/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: 263. To ask the Minister for Health to outline details of the recent move of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and Quality Authority; the impact this development will have on the speed at which vaccines could be added to the national immunisation programme bearing in mind it currently takes on average six years; and if...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: 264. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been an increase in the budget and extra resources allocated to the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) arising from the recent move of NIAC from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and Quality Authority as a consequence of this move; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36488/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee will remain an independent committee with the ability to define their own work programme, arising from the recent move of NIAC from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and Quality Authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36489/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the means by which a SUSI grant applicant (details supplied), who is being accommodated through the rent-a-room scheme, can satisfy the requirement to confirm their independent residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36274/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I thank the Chair for accommodating me and I thank all the witnesses. There are very many questions I could ask but, given the small amount of time I have available, I will just ask some specific ones. The NTPF is saying there are strong financial oversight procedures and processes in place to administer the insourcing funds and yet we saw the issues in Beaumont, which incidentally were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: I am looking for a brief and specific answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Marie Sherlock: Was there a failing in the NTPF systems to actually pick up on what had happened?