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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (20 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline he is working towards for publication of the Cost of Disability Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29660/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (20 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 685. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assessments of need performed by each CHO in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [29492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (20 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 717. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) calling for a national strategy for haemochromatosis to be developed in Ireland; his views on same; if he will commit to developing a national strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29690/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Qualifications Recognition (15 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 193. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will issue a circular to nursing homes clarifying that health care assistants with Indian nursing qualifications approved by QQI NARIC Ireland do not need to complete a level 5 health care assistant course to renew their general employment permits (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 296. To ask the Minister for Health his response to a media report (details supplied); when this deficit in the Service Plan was identified by this Department; the action he proposes to take to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29024/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Everyone is very welcome. I note the impressive progress made with the enhanced community care programme. It is fantastic news. People sometimes concentrate on the impact that has on the system, which is a no-brainer in terms of taking pressure off the hospitals, but the more important thing is the impact it has on patients in that they get local care and access to earlier care. From a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, that is a difficulty and it goes right across the health service. Both are responsible. Who does the buck stop with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: When will we have a workforce plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, but with all due respect, we have been hearing for years about the piecemeal approach to this; we have an extra this number of places in a certain college and so on. When will there be a comprehensive workforce plan that deals with all aspects of this? When we have asked about workforce planning before, we have been told about recruitment, which is an entirely different thing. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: So is there a plan that we can read?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Can Ms Hoey provide us with that? That is a workforce plan for hospitals. Is that what Ms Hoey is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry. Time has gone by and we are asking about this, as I said, for years and there does not seem to be a proper function there or a plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Can the witnesses provide us with anything that they have in writing about workforce planning? What is happening in the Department? Is there a workforce planning function in the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How can the Department do workforce planning on an annual basis? It should be working on at least a ten-year horizon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The surprising thing is that we are talking about having it at some point in the future. I welcome the fact that it is September but why do we not have an ongoing, live workforce plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about a comprehensive workforce plan. I look forward to that in September. I want to ask about infrastructure, particularly in the Dublin area. Why has a site not been selected for the elective hospital in Dublin at this point and when will a site be selected? The second point in that regard is about the surgical hub on the north side of Dublin. We are told it will be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Department has been doing that for months on end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We have been told that for a very long time and there does not seem to be any progress. When will the proposal go to the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, thanks. Over the weekend, I took the opportunity to listen to the contribution of Brendan Lenihan to the recent health conference. He made a number of interesting points. Leaving aside the question of the big financial risk involved in the service plan, which is a major thing, I have a specific question. He talked about the relationship between the Department and the HSE, the need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Does Mr. Watt accept it is a logical follow-on from the restructuring of the HSE that he would restructure the Department so it is also operating on a geographic basis with integrated care, rather than still having silos within the Department?