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

Róisín Shortall: I concur with the point made by Deputy Durkan. It is a poor attempt to deal with something that should have dealt with long ago. This raises very big questions about CORU and about the legislation. I do not think the response is adequate.

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

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 6: In page 7, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “Report into the future of regulating health and social care professionals 6.The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas, and the relevant committee, setting out the implications of introducing an established criteria...

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

Róisín Shortall: I will just point out that the Health Research Board, HRB, has produced its report so it is a matter of a decision being taken in the Department.

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

Róisín Shortall: If the time period was changed to six months, would the Minister have a report ready for us on the approach he intends to take in respect of the unregulated professions?

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

Róisín Shortall: I would like clarification on the point the Minister made about the athletic therapists because the president of DCU and the president of the South East Technological University have both been in touch about this. They say that these people do very extensive training, a four year, full-time, BSc honours degree programme. They are working in places like the FAI, the GAA, in many independent...

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

Róisín Shortall: On the basis of the conversation we have had, I am happy to withdraw that amendment but I will be retabling it with six-month timeline on it on Report Stage. On the basis of what the Minister said, and talking about the autumn, I would expect he would accept that amendment or else have a similar one.

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

Róisín Shortall: On the practical side of things, what is the Minister's intention in relation to CORU, given the slow progress that has been made? What additional staff are required there? When is it expected that it will get through the seven remaining professions that it has not been able to deal with so far?

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

Róisín Shortall: There are new sections but we have not heard the case being put for them.

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

Róisín Shortall: Can we hear the Minister’s rationale for No. 5?

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

Róisín Shortall: It is the long one.

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

Róisín Shortall: While I understand the aim of the proposal, what will be the outcome in relation to standards? For example, the Minister talked about somebody who could have ten years’ experience in addiction services and is very well qualified in that area. Does that person’s employer then say the person is suitably qualified to work in social care across any of its elements? The fact that...

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

Róisín Shortall: I just think it would have been more appropriate to have some kind of conversion course for people in those circumstances, people who only had experience and expertise in one particular element of social care.

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

Róisín Shortall: Who is going to develop that proposal?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 346. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the pay budget amount for each children’s disability network team, in tabular form. [20408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 347. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 22 March 2023, in relation to the €11 million that has been allocated to address waiting lists for clinical assessments identified through the assessment-of-need process, if it is possible to apply to receive funding for a private assessment under this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards for recruitment of chief executives for the new regional health areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20707/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 473. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to publish a plan in relation to the role of the HSE centre following implementation of regional health areas; the timeline he is working towards for publication; if this plan will include provisions for voluntary redundancy or other exit routes, in view of recent comments from the CEO of the Health Service Executive (details supplied); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints made to the HSE in relation to breaches of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2008, and to which sections of the Act they refer to, in tabular form. [20709/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to increase the budget for the HSE Environmental Health Service for monitoring and enforcement of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20710/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 476. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1768 of 18 April 2023, if a healthcare award at level 6,7, or 8 instead of the QQI healthcare support level 5 award will be accepted for employment permit purposes for healthcare assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20711/23]