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Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is timely to have this debate. The Sinn Féin motion notes all the different difficulties associated with the high interest rates in this country and the burden that places on ordinary families trying to provide homes for themselves. That is all very worthwhile and there are a lot of questions to be asked about why our interest rates are so out of line with other European countries....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is the adequacy I am asking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is it the general experience that security personnel would be agency staff who come and go or are they HSE or hospital staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Points have been made about the role of the HSE and the need for it to have a separate health sector division, and for that to be funded. Does anybody know where that proposal stands? Is it a live proposal? Is it being pursued?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Presumably, it will only do it if it is funded by the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How many?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is it the view of the INMO that this is a capacity issue, or is it down to a lack of priority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is a specific issue which the committee needs to pursue actively. Mr. Figgis made a point about staff. He provided the data on the incidence of assault. He referred to the unequal treatment of benefits affording to support workers by their employer even if they are assaulted in the same incident as other grades of staff. Will he explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is clearly very unfair. I thank Mr. Figgis for the explanation. I turn to the issue of bullying. This is an additional pressure on staff, who sometimes deal with aggressive patients and people who are with them. There is all the stress associated with working in unsafe environments, with understaffing and so on. Then there is the issue of how staff are treated by management,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Do the witnesses know whether there are data available on this? The SIPTU representatives might have something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Figgis. I ask for a brief response on this point from the INMO representatives.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. Murphy saying training on this should be mandatory for managers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There can be a policy on paper but that is not the full story. The HSE has told us about seven policies it has to deal with this area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Ms Connolly. Will one of the IMO representatives answer the same question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: On that last point about racial attacks and abuse, part of the awareness campaign has to be getting across to people how dependent we are on healthcare workers who come from abroad to keep the health service operating. That is a point that is very often not appreciated. I would like to talk about some of the statistics. The point was made about the low arrest rates of perpetrators of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.