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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (4 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the further delay to the HSE Home Support Tender 2023; the steps he is taking to ensure that the tender is not delayed any further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21034/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (4 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the funding proposals he has considered for the HSE Home Support Tender 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 284. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make orally inhaled levodopa (details supplied) available under the long-term illness scheme to treat Parkinson’s symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21038/23]

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is the Minister talking about all professions here?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Just social care. Amendment No. 5 applies only to social care.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It applies only to social care.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It seems the intention of this is to lower the bar. I do not know if that is the case but my impression is that the bar for standards in social care is being lowered. I am sure there are potentially safety issues and risk issues involved in that but what concerns me is that there is not consistency. The work the board is doing is about assessing the level of risk and saying that there are...

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is a strange approach to take on standards.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is saying that a person is qualified to, for example, work in older people services, even though he or she may never have worked a day in older people services.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We are talking here about the quality of the regulation, however.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Declaring somebody qualified in one aspect of social care does not mean that he or she is qualified in other aspects of it. That is what the Government is seeking to do with this amendment.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Just to clarify, is the Minister saying they must engage in CPD?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Who arranges that?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Therefore, that would be a requirement for all social care workers.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What is that requirement?

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It seems to be a case of needs must, which is not the best way of regulating.