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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: That is beside the point. I want to ask-----

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: Will Mr. Watt please go back to the figure of €2 million? How did he come up with that figure?

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 am not talking about the next round. I am talking about the €2 million Mr. Watt committed to Trinity College for research purposes. I am asking how he came up with that figure of €2 million. What was that to cover? Any funding application requires detailed proposals and estimates. What was that money supposed to cover?

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: It would be out of Trinity.

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: Was it the intention to establish a new department within Trinity?

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: Where was it intended that Dr. Holohan would be based?

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: What is the relevant department that Mr. Watt had in mind?

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: In what department would the position be located?

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: What was the intention for the research work? Was it intended that would be public property or the property of the Department, for example? What was the intention around that?

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: Was that agreed with Trinity?

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: If he was spending €23 million on research, surely Mr. Watt should have ensured it would be the property of the Department of Health.

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 going into generalities. It is regrettable we are losing this additional capacity within the health service as a result of the serious mishandling of this within the Department of Health.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 421. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when passports will issue for children (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23169/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 432. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 434 of 22 March 2022, when a passport will issue for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23369/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 431. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a toddler (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23368/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 698. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that outpatient appointments at a hospital (details supplied) are being cancelled or rescheduled without a reason being given to patients; if he will issue guidance to the Health Service Executive which urges that patients be provided with a reason for the cancellation of their appointments; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fire Safety (11 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by members of the Dublin Airport Environmental Working Group at its meeting of 17 November 2021 in relation to the use of aqueous film forming foam at Dublin Airport given the introduction of the Convention through Regulation EU 2019/1021 and Regulation EU 2020/784; the assurances...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (11 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to introduce regulations outlining the forms of identification which financial institutions may request when a customer applies to open a new bank account; if his attention has been drawn to concerns that banks are relying on passports as a form of identification which is costly in cases in which a person has an out-of-date passport; and if he...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is not a Nightingale ward.