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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome our guests. It is important to acknowledge the essential role that general practice has played in the health service down through the years. General practice is very much the front line and the first point of contact for people. Traditionally people have been vary satisfied, in the main, with the level of care being provided and the accessibility of their local GPs. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to ask Mr. Moran a question. Clearly, premises has been a problem. I have previously made the point that we would never expect school principals to provide their own schools. We have highly trained GPs. Surely, it makes sense that the State would provide premises for them, along with all the other health professionals required to work in a multidisciplinary team. What is Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about working for and being paid a very good salary by the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: We need a model that addresses that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Or we could manage two different models.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I just think there is a difference-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What is Mr. Moran's view about corporatisation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I already asked this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is also a problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There are two elements to my final question. Why is the IMO opposed to a new model of care? Why does it not recognise that there can be two different models of care, that is, one for existing GPs and those who are established and that being an option for new GPs and a different model for those GPs who do not want to invest in premises and want to work solely as GPs in a multidisciplinary...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Can I take it that it is the Minister of State's intention to appoint an addiction nurse representative?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I will pick up on a number of points that were made. It is true to say that there is a sense among many people working at community level that there is a sort of anti-community attitude on the part of the Minister of State's Department currently, but one that has been developing over recent years. The Minister of State talked about a timeframe and this being a 2017 strategy. Some of us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister of State do anything about that? Is it just words here or will he actually do anything? Has he recognised the fact that education is such a weak link? Will he tell us what he will do to urgently address this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It would be great if the officials applied the same criteria to other Departments and State agencies so that they actually play a part and achieve results. That is not happening.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I commend Deputy Ward on bringing this motion to the House. It is comprehensive, detailed and timely and I urge the Government to support it if it has not already indicated its position. Having listened to the Minister of State's contribution a short while ago, a couple of issues arise. I will pick up on the final point made by Deputy Duncan Smith about the Minister of State's call for a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that referrals to the Workplace Relations Commission are being dealt with within satisfactory timeframes; his plans to address backlogs in cases; the position regarding the open competition which closed on 11 March 2021 and the appointments process for workplace adjudicators in the Workplace Relations Commission;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 19 January 2022, if he will give further consideration to addressing issues at national test centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 765. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment can take place for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4903/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 766. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to deal with the backlog in the BreastCheck national breast cancer screening programme; the reasons women under 50 years of age are not included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4905/22]