Results 19,261-19,280 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: When will that change so care will shift to the community?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Sure. We have been talking about this for 20 years and very slow progress has been made. It is just so frustrating. The whole area of social care is being completely downgraded and this is where it is now. If we want to deal with upstream issues, we must invest properly in social care also. Unfortunately, it gets very little attention at a senior level within the Government. We have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Many public service workers took cuts in salaries during the crash.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Many people were not compensated for a loss in salary and pension contributions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Yes. That two-tier approach was very damaging for many people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is accepted. There are issues like that in teaching and nursing, as well as many different areas. That needs to be addressed separately. There is a Sláintecare contract on offer now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry. It is on the table. I do not necessarily want to get into that. I accept fully that the process stopped in the middle of January when the chair was appointed elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Right. It is hugely remiss of the Government that it has not replaced the chair and got talks going again. It is holding up so much. We fully recognise that. It is also important to recognise that what we know of the Sláintecare contract, certainly in terms of pay and pension contributions, is an attractive contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I ask SIPTU and Fórsa what kind of engagement, if any, they have had in the past year with the Government on the implementation of Sláintecare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Does someone from Fórsa wish to comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Sure. I am talking about going forward. The historical issues would need to be addressed separately.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The horrors being unleashed by Putin’s regime in Ukraine are grotesque and we would all agree they are totally inhumane. The suffering of the Ukrainian people is increasing with every passing day as Putin’s campaign of terror intensifies. We also agree that the unprecedented exodus of refugees from Ukraine demands an unprecedented response by this State. It is being reported...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: We all accept that the scale of this is absolutely unprecedented. It is very difficult to comprehend the nature and scale of the response that will be required. I am glad to hear about the cross-Government group that has been set up. I would like the Tánaiste to answer the question about the co-ordination of the local response and whether consideration have been given to reviving the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I asked about the Covid contingency funding.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats and other parties have been looking for several weeks for time to be allowed for a debate on the proposals on a national maternity hospital. There is growing public concern about the fact that the Government seems to be about to sign a deal with the Religious Sisters of Charity to gift the new national maternity hospital to them. There can be no justification for this....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: We could use Government time.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: For clarification, the Tánaiste has agreed to a debate, as he said, on the maternity hospital.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: The Government is refusing it at the Business Committee.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)
Róisín Shortall: You were asked to provide Government time and you are refusing to do that.