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Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and to outline some concerns regarding business supports in the short term but probably more importantly in the medium term. Before that I would like to take moment to reflect on the past two years and the role of the State during this period. While we in the Social Democrats might have done some things differently during the pandemic, we all...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Moneylenders have been a feature of this country since the 19th century. They have acted as a source of credit for low-income households when mainstream providers simply did not do that. However, this easily-accessible credit comes at a cost and as we know it is a very high one. For households that are already struggling, these loans are a heavy burden. They may seem at the beginning to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is giving active consideration to allowing a pension increase for semi-State pensioners, for example, CIÉ pensioners who have been denied their pro-rate cost of living increases since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position for some older persons living on their own who have a spare room and who would be happy to consider taking a refugee from Ukraine into their homes but who are fearful that they would lose their social welfare and medical entitlements, for example, the fuel allowance and medical card; if an urgent public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the work that has been carried out by his Department and the HSE with regard to the specific physical and mental health needs and clinical pathways for intersex persons in Ireland as distinct from transgender persons; if he will develop a strategy in this regard through engagement with intersex persons and representative organisations; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ukrainian War (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 395. To ask the Minister for Health the position for some older persons living on their own who have a spare room and who would be happy to consider taking a refugee from Ukraine into their homes but who are fearful that they would lose their social welfare and medical entitlements, for example, the fuel allowance and medical card; if an urgent public reassurance can be issued for such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 396. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 2 March 2022, the status of discussions with relevant parties regarding the role of general practitioners in relation to home births; the timeline he is working towards to resolve issues surrounding access to care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13750/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Bodies (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13751/22]

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise a couple of points under this section. First, the patient advocacy service is very good but it is under-staffed. I hope the Minister will move quickly to recruit additional staff. The Minister also made the point that it does not work in private nursing homes. Given the extent to which the State depends on private nursing homes and that they are largely funded by State...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: This is probably the most important element of the legislation. Deputy Cullinane referred earlier to our experience in this committee with the south Kerry CAMHS issue. At that meeting, we were trying to get to the point where we could identify who was in charge and who was responsible. It was impossible to do that because there was no clear chain of command at all. There were various...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I very much accept what the Minister is saying. It is an exceptionally complex area to legislate for. In preparing the Report Stage amendment, can the Minister indicate if it will deal with the specific area of screening or is it a wider issue? In terms of trying to be specific about shortcomings in screening programmes, it is hard to do that. There are many implications then for the...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Will that relate to a situation like we had in CervicalCheck where when the outcomes of the screening programmes were audited, which is desirable, and that information emerged, there was the failure to disclose that. Is that the scenario the Minister is talking about legislating for?

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Can I tease that a little more? Is the Minister saying that it would only be covered in circumstances where there was a patient safety issue in terms of an actual event as opposed to a diagnosis not happening due to perhaps shortcomings in the screen programmes? I would have thought the key issue is not that something goes wrong, which it can do from time to time, but how it is handled and...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for that. That is good.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to tease this out a little bit. We had two very stark examples in the recent past of reports being produced on poor practice, let us say. The reports, namely, the Grace report and Brandon report, have not been published. People are still waiting for those. We were told both of those reports could not be published because they were being referred on to the Garda. They were...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate that. I thank the Minister for that clarification. Perhaps when his asks the Department to prepare that note, for general information for the committee, the Minister might also ask it to produce a note on the reasons those two reports I mentioned are not being published.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for their presentations, and thank them and all of their members for all of the work they do to keep the health service afloat, not only over the past two years where their contributions were outstanding but on an ongoing basis before and since. It is remarkable that so many people have referred to the fact that there is a solution. We talk about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Do we know at this stage how many of these types of posts are necessary for the full roll-out of chronic illness management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How many are there now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: They are based in hospitals.