Results 19,541-19,560 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for (details supplied) that were submitted by individual hospitals for people with diabetes over 21 years of age; the number that were approved; the number that were refused in each of the years 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; if there are plans to remove the age restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22426/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the extent of an indemnity further to certain circumstances (details supplied); the areas of activity which it will cover; the implications for the new maternity hospital in addition to the other assets of St. Vincent’s University Hospital; if he has taken legal advice on this specific aspect of the transaction; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a review of a product (details supplied); the stocks that have been purchased; the expected delivery date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22533/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has carried out a new review of neurosurgical services, given that a recommendation from the 2005 review of neurosurgical services was not acted on (details supplied); the reason for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 248. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he has investigated this matter; if so, the findings of this investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22535/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 249. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to communications between an organisation (details supplied) and a neurosurgeon in relation to the decision to designate the Mater Hospital as the major trauma centre; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22536/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by the National Clinical Programme for Neurology and the HSE Scheduled Care Transformation Programme throughout 2021 and 2022 to develop an integrated cross discipline pathway for Huntington’s disease, considering the need for an integrated cross discipline service, which will take responsibility for the coordination...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients seen each month at the Huntington’s disease clinic in Beaumont Hospital; if he will outline the multi-disciplinary services available; the frequently with which patients receive an MDT review; the way in which this Huntington’s disease service compares with the motor neurone disease service it aims to mirror; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons living with Huntington’s disease supported by dementia advisers and memory technology resource room staff. [22539/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome both of the witnesses. It was interesting that Mr. Watt used the phrase "this innovative approach". We are not talking about the rights or wrongs of investment in research. We are talking about the handling of this particular proposal and I think that it is a bit of a misnomer to refer to it as an "innovative approach". It was a serious mishandling of a proposal. I happen to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Were those salaries paid? Are those salaries being paid by the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I would say Mr. Watt does know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Were they paid by the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Watt is the Accounting Officer for the Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thought Mr. Watt would have been aware of that. He talked very vaguely about things and said that the letter to Trinity was from the Department. It was from Mr. Watt himself. This is all about how Mr. Watt handled this matter. He talked about that letter setting out the main draft details. They are not really draft details. They are very specific in the letter to Trinity. He said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The letter very clearly says that he commits to "...ake an annual ring-fenced allocation of €2M for the duration of the secondment". So that is pretty clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Most reasonable people would read the letter to Trinity as Mr. Watt committing a figure of €23 million without having the authority to do that. I want to ask the Secretary General about the HRB. Is it not the case that he cut across established procedures for decisions on spending for research and undermined the HRB? The Secretary General did not consult with them. Mr. Watt...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Appointment of Chief Medical Officer to a Role at a Higher Education Institution: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but the procedures do not allow Mr. Watt to commit its funding. Let us go back to that figure of €2 million-----