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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify the new funding provided for disability services in Budget 2024; to provide a breakdown of the allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 277. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the registration of psychotherapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2024 (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 282. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the new funding provided for mental health in Budget 2024; to provide a breakdown of the allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45751/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Good morning. I thank our guests for coming in. It is particularly important that Dr. Duffy is here as well as Dr. Conlon because we know that there is very strong, evidence-based research accompanying the recommendations and it is very helpful to have both researchers here to answer questions. Our guests' report was presented to Cabinet on 25 April. While this committee is engaging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: So, Ms O'Shea has not been contacted by the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I cannot help thinking that there is a delaying process at play here to some extent. That is very regrettable. I would have expected that senior people in the Department - at least the officials - would have been in touch to clarify some of the recommendations with an eye to planning the legislation that was recommended. Has the implementation group that was established within the HSE to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is very worrying, given the huge amount of work that has been done in this area. I am just wondering where that implementation group is getting its research from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It seems extraordinary. I take it the same goes for Dr. Conlon and Dr. Duffy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There has been no contact at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: She said that needed to be informed by service providers, service users, lawyers and ethicists. In what way would she see that recommendation being progressed if it is her view that that kind of representative body would have input into that? Who should initiate that and lead it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The other point Ms O'Shea made quite strongly when she was in with us perviously related to the uncertainty felt by service providers regarding where they stood relative to the law, and the fact that there had been no training on the provisions in the original Bill. Has she had any contact from any of the medical schools? Did any of them seek advice from her?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, what is key?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, and it is getting more difficult to access. My final question concerns that training. Have the witnesses had any contact with the Irish College of General Practitioners in relation to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We will take that up separately. When I raised the issue of the proposed legislation with Ms O'Shea and asked if she thought it was possible to accommodate all of her recommendations in one Bill, she suggested that section 11 might need to be handled separately.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Chair, some of us have been here for three hours, including Senator Mullen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: He cannot come in at the end of it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is not agreed. I welcome the fact that time is to be provided on Thursday for discussing the health funding issue. The Minister for Health will be there but should the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform not present himself to the Chamber to tell us about his role in the health budget? A Minister making statements in the Dáil does not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to issues raised regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the steps her Department is taking to address these issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45253/23]