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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. If Mr. Pescar has suspicions - and I am unsure as to how he would have suspicions with online buyers - what would he do to verify a person’s age?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How often would that have been done last year, for example?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank Mr. Pescar and the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, Chairman, my understanding was that this meeting was to be about the oversight structures in respect of Sláintecare, specifically regionalisation. Can our guests stick to that agenda, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Perhaps members might also adhere to that agenda as this needs to be a productive session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome our visitors. It is important to point out that we are coming to the end of the fifth year of what was supposed to be a ten-year reform programme under Sláintecare. I have to say that when it comes to regionalisation I think the system has stalled, if it is not going backwards. My heart sank when I was listening to the two presentations this morning with regard to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I think Mr. Watt said that about another letter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It is the principle of what he is saying about expanding the remit of hospital groups to include community services. We are all concerned about the fact we have a hospital-centric health service. Mr. Watt referred to that earlier. What is he talking about regarding expanding the remit of hospital groups? Will he explain what his understanding is of regionalisation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. Watt to stick to the question I have asked him please. Why would he suggest expanding the remit of hospital groups? What is his thinking on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Please do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Please answer it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: No, I am not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am asking Mr. Watt to answer the specific question I asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What is your understanding-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, time is short. What is Mr. Watt's understanding of what would happen to hospital groups in a regional structure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The structures that have been agreed and the geographical areas are entirely different from the hospital groups. Why would hospital groups arise at all? We should be talking about hospitals and not hospital groups.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. Watt is repeating that. There would not be hospital groups.