Results 3,001-3,020 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Sorry, we know what it was.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Sorry Chair, we know what the situation is. I am asking the Minister a direct question about this and about the accountability. Is the Minister insisting on accountability of his Secretary General? Because the Minister has just said that he accepts the evidence provided by Ms Gillane in this regard. That evidence is in direct conflict with the claims made by the Minister’s...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: I am going to stop at this point in relation to that issue.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: I wanted to know what action, if any, this Minister is going to take in relation to his Secretary General.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: He can do it briefly.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: No, not that.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Section 39 organisations.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank the Minister. May I ask about older people’s care? An excess of €1 billion is being spent on older people’s care. Over recent years, concern has been expressed about the definite trend towards very large congregated settings for older people, which I think most people agree are not ideal by any means. On the one hand, there is a business kind of...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: I know, yes.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: But would that not be the case around disability services in particular, not older people services and not the private sector ones?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: That was committed to a few years ago.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: There is a queue for that to happen.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: When will the commission be up and running?
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023) Róisín Shortall: Okay. I am going to leave it at that. I just want to make one final point, which is that the terms of reference did not provide for any attempt to establish accountability and as long as that looseness exists, we will have people going off doing solo runs. I want to pursue that in relation to the accountability board that the Government is supposed to have in place but I will leave it for...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (18 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of an Irish citizen (details supplied) who is being detained abroad; if his Department has engaged with authorities in the country in which the Irish citizen is detained in relation to this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17180/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17531/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (18 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has liaised with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities on the issue of energy companies reducing electricity and gas prices for their customers, given the significant fall in European wholesale gas prices over recent months; when it is expected such reductions will take place; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Qualifications Recognition (18 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 478. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if non-Irish healthcare assistants with level 7 or level 8 relevant equivalent qualifications will only be permitted to renew their employment permits if they complete the NFQ level 5 apprenticeship for the occupation of healthcare assistant, once this has been established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16592/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Family Reunification (18 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 494. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration is being given to reducing the minimum salary for family re-unification concerning non-EEA healthcare assistants, under the general employment permit, in view of changes to the scheme in 2021 which set the annual minimum salary at €27,000 for such healthcare assistants; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health Services Staff (18 Apr 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 495. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of healthcare assistants who have been granted a general employment permit since changes to the scheme in 2021, which set the minimum salary at €27,000; the number of these workers who have the relevant level 5 qualifications required under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18226/23]