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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, I-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, I am not talking about in the general population. I am talking about the reason people turn up at EDs. From what the witnesses have said I do not think they do collect that data and I think it is a mistake not to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: If it is available for any hospital I ask the witnesses to provide it to the committee, and I will leave it at that. They can come back and let the committee know whether it is available or not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The second type of data I think it important is on outpatient waiting lists. The standard thing seems to be that if I go to see my GP with an issue and need to go to a consultant, that GP in the main will refer me to a consultant they know. They may have been in college with them or know them personally. That consultant might have a 15-month waiting list. Am I not entitled to know if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Categorically yes to what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is that happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: My last question relates to data. Can the Minister provide data relating to the ratio of acute beds to population in each of the hospital groups?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: If that could be provided, that would be helpful. Following on from that, obviously there has been a lot of concentration on Limerick and the logjams there. Why is it the only hospital group that does not have a level three hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That must be a factor with the long wait times. Does the Minister accept that and why can it not be then corrected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not saying new, I am just saying level three.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is hard to understand why the Department would be considering an expensive private site when there is a publicly-owned site available that has expertise as well. It is also a good location in terms of accessibility.
- Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion at a time when so many families are struggling to survive. They are trying to cope with the high cost of housing, the ongoing situation regarding inflation and pressures on family budgets at a time when interest rates continue to rise. All of this combines to place a heavy burden on many mortgage holders and first-time buyers....
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (25 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration is being given to reducing the minimum salary for family reunification concerning non-EEA healthcare assistants under the general employment permit, in view of changes to the scheme in 2021 that set the annual minimum salary at €27,000 for healthcare assistants under the general employment permit; and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal against the refusal to pay out the pandemic special recognition payment for a group of front-line healthcare workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19278/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (25 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the review of Ireland's terminations of pregnancy law; the timeline he is working towards; if he will present the review to the Oireachtas Committee on Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19489/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: No, the Tánaiste did not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: You are not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: So the Tánaiste finds his behaviour acceptable. Is that what the Tánaiste is saying?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (20 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 48. To ask the Minister for Health if the new home care tender will be in place by 1 May 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18119/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Twelve years.