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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Will Mr. Watt get back to me on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: The dental treatment service scheme is on the verge of collapse across the State. Upwards of 80% of medical card holders cannot access dental treatment. Cancer patients, kidney transplant patients and patients with diabetes all have medical cards. That is farcical when 80% of medical card holders have not been able to access dental treatment for almost a year. Have talks with the Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: The Taoiseach has said that in a response to me, but obviously that is no addition whatsoever because they are leaving in their droves. Given that 80% of the population who hold medical cards have not been able to access dental treatment for at least the past six months, what is the Department of Health doing about it? That €10 million is not cutting it at all because they are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: The Department is only starting negotiations next year. Is that what Mr. Watt said?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Could I make a quick observation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: It is not good enough that negotiations have not begun when people throughout the State are waiting for dental treatment. I earlier mentioned cancer patients, kidney transplant patients and all medical card holders. It is incredible that negotiations have not even begun. It is disgraceful.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: My colleague, Deputy Carthy, raised a touchy subject in relation to Mr. Watt's salary. Can I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Watt, I am speaking-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General if it would be in order to discuss the Secretary General's salary for 2020.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: We could discuss it as part of the 2021 accounts in a few weeks, perhaps. On Mr. Watt's unilateral decision to refuse the committee access to the report, even in a confidential manner, the board of the national children's hospital had said it was looking forward to discussing the report and its contents with the committee. If we were to invite representatives of the board in the new year,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: Would he advise them to do what he has done today, that is, give no information whatsoever?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: On a point of clarification, Mr. Watt refused point-blank to furnish us with the report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: The committee will discuss getting access to that report later. We do not believe Mr. Watt's reasons are valid.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (16 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deliver the port access northern cross route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62107/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (15 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the homelessness figures for counties Louth and Meath, respectively, in tabular form; the number of persons on each housing waiting list; and the numbers on HAP in each county. [62132/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (15 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the east Meath primary care centre is not expected to be operational until quarter four of 2022 given that the HSE is hopeful that negotiations on the agreement of legal documents can be concluded before year end 2021 to allow works to commence in quarter one of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62187/21]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges facing Women in Sport: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: The committee wrote to the Minister of State in April of this year asking him to conduct a full review of funding for women in sport. It also asked that a task force be established to consider matters relating to women in sport. Did he ever do that? If not, what was the reason?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges facing Women in Sport: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: How effective is that structure? The letter from the women rugby players that was issued this week suggests that the measures the committee called for are needed. The system is so ineffective that a large group of prominent figures in women's rugby wrote a letter stating, quite strongly, that they have no confidence or trust in the IRFU and its leadership after historic failings. One would...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges facing Women in Sport: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: It is good that the Minister of State has agreed to meet with them. That is very welcome.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Challenges facing Women in Sport: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Imelda Munster: A large group of women sent a letter to the Minister of State. Imagine the utter frustration about the lack of transparency and accountability and obstruction that caused them to actually send that letter. They had several requests, one of which was that the Minister of State request oversight of the ongoing reviews to make sure the findings are transparent. They also want the...