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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What was that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What is the current strategy then, for the management of these cases? Is it the same as previously? Is it the advice to Government that once a case gets to discovery, the State should settle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, and is that the current position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Home Charges: Department of Health (15 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank the Chair.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Taoiseach. I welcome the indication that we are moving to a windfall tax, however late in the day. What is the timescale for the introduction of such a tax? Will that be retrospective? The Taoiseach spoke about the main energy companies and the extent of the profits they have been making. We know that in the first six months of last year, the ESB made profits of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The cost-of-living crisis is having a devastating impact on workers, families and businesses right across the country. Since 2021, energy prices have trebled. They have more than doubled since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Average energy costs for consumers are now a staggering €4,300 per year. Everyone getting their gas and electricity bills in recent weeks will have been...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 498. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the review of the immigrant investor programme, submitted in November 2020; the reason for the delay in publishing this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6762/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 499. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering curtailing or suspending new applications to the immigrant investor programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6763/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 500. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people, under-18 and over-18 years of age, who were taken into wardship in December 2022 and January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6764/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to publish the prison health needs assessment; if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6768/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date and by month, in tabular form. [6767/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 653. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban via the drugs payment scheme, following reports that the process is very unclear and acts as a barrier to obtaining the drug in a timely manner; the steps he is taking to address these access issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 654. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the reimbursement scheme for cariban in order that it can be prescribed by a GP; the reason only consultant obstetricians can prescribe this treatment under the drugs payment scheme, given that the majority of women do not see a consultant until they are at least 12 weeks pregnant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6766/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff who have left his Department in each of the years 2018 to 2022, by grade, and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [6535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to the Dental Council (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 665. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1515 of 18 January 2023, the additional steps being taken to address significant delays in processing applications by Ukrainian dentists to the Dental Council; if further staff have been provided to deal with this backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 855. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to increase the standard eye exam fee paid to opticians for medical card holders in relation to the community ophthalmic services scheme; the amount the increase will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7351/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 915. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided under the social inclusion and community activation programme in each of the years from 2018 to 2022, by county, in tabular form. [7350/23]

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I want to echo the sentiments, which the Minister expressed before he started into this debate, on the many thousands of people who come here from abroad to work in our health service. We depend on these people to keep our health service running. It is shocking that they or any of their countrypeople are subjected to racial abuse in this country. As the Minister did, I thank them for their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (9 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 307. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 745 of 22 November 2022, the status of the final report of the expert group on the reform and management of clinical negligence claims; the reason the recommendations which come under his remit have not been implemented; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6387/23]