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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Some of us remember that very clearly and it is our concern now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. O'Raghallaigh denying that the licence vitiates the ownership issue in the lease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I did not say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: St. Vincent's mortgaged the public hospitals to raise money for the private hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is that where all the St. Vincent's debts come from?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: From the private hospital building?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The debts come from building the private hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Could maps be provided to go with the documents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: We were not supplied with those. I ask that they be sent to the committee overnight, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Menton.

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for bringing forward the motion. It is very timely and important. It deals with a group of people who are absolutely critical to our health service. They work behind the scenes in a very quiet way. In many ways they have been too quiet in recent years. They have now reached breaking point. It is important to note at the start that since the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (24 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 571. To ask the Minister for Health when the evaluation of the individual placement and support services will be published; the cost of each individual placement and support service; the outcomes of each individual placement and support service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25967/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of participants in each of the individual placement and support services per county in tabular form; if there are waiting lists for any of the individual placement and support services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25966/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (24 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss changes to the homecare tender and its potential impact on not-for-profit and community homecare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 238. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1816 of 26 April 2022, the status of the proposed lots for the upcoming homecare tender which will be based on volume as opposed to community-healthcare organisations; when providers can expect to receive the details of these lots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26893/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 4. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Sláintecare consultant contract negotiations; the rationale for not appointing a new independent chair; the timeline that he is now working towards for the introduction of a new contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27163/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am yet again raising the issue of the consultant contract. If the Minister is serious about tackling the inordinate waiting lists in hospitals and getting our health service to function properly, we must recruit consultants. It is now five months since the independent chair had to withdraw from her role in the talks. What are the plans? Why has she not been replaced? What is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I must remind the Minister that he said at the IHCA conference several months ago that he wanted the contract finalised within weeks. He said in reply to a number of parliamentary questions over the past six months that his timeframe was a number of weeks. There has been considerable slippage and one must question if the Minister is serious about this. There is a point I wish to make....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (26 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Unfortunately, I do not get a great sense of urgency from the Minister. What we know about the new consultant contract sounds attractive and would be attractive to all of those many doctors who have left these shores. What they are looking for, first and foremost, is a proper work-life balance. They are looking for respect in their job, which, unfortunately, they have not had during their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the interim guidance plan for long-Covid, published September 2021, does not include neurological rehab and psychological supports and strategies; the data used to inform the decision to provide eight nutritionists as part of this plan; the rationale for the exclusion of the Mater Hospital, which is home to the original long-Covid clinic...