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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am concerned about cancer diagnostics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is good news. It would be helpful if we had the figures across the board for different cancers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Do we have a figure for the cancer diagnostics waiting list?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Do we have a national figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Obviously, many of those symptoms could relate to cancer. Could I ask about radiation therapists? We are told there is a 30% vacancy rate across the service. Is that the case? Is anything being done to ensure we address that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am just asking about what is being done to address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry but I am out of time. What is actually being done about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: No, for the cancer programme and the NCRI's report only relates to the period up to 2018. Is this not an ongoing concern or issue that the HSE addresses within its programme? Surely the poor rates of uptake of screening is a priority for the delegation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sure. That is in respect of breast cancer, which is very welcome, but it would be good to know about other cancers.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this motion. It is important that we talk about this issue until it is resolved. We seem to have been talking about shortcomings in mental health services for time immemorial and yet it seems nothing is being done to bring them up to the standard that is expected for a modern and wealthy society. Many of the problems impacting our mental health services, especially CAMHS, are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is the issue not that successive governments penalised medical card holders who needed nursing home care? That was the question I asked earlier. Throughout that entire period of 30 years, did no Minister ever say, "Hang on, why are we not providing medical card patients with proper care when they need it?". Does the Taoiseach accept that fundamental to this entire issue is the fact that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There still is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It was because of a failure to provide public nursing home care.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach has indicated that the report to Cabinet next week will be published - that is a good thing - and also that he has agreed with my proposal that the Joint Committee on Health be fully briefed by the Secretary General. It would also be helpful if there were people there from the legal section in the Department. In 2005, when the Travers report into illegal...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 24 January 2023, the number of persons employed in the Ukraine Division of his Department in each of the quarters since it was established in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4655/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 553. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to strengthen the law concerning gangland crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4073/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (26 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 199. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a report by an organisation (details supplied) on wealth in Ireland; the steps he is taking to address the unequal distribution of wealth in this country; if he intends to introduce measures to increase taxes on capital and wealth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3824/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff in International Protection Accommodation Services by grade and division, in tabular form; the number of additional staff since the beginning of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3419/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons currently employed by his Department; the number of persons assigned to the Integration brief; the number of vacant positions currently under his Department's Integration brief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (25 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number and proportion of persons diagnosed with all cancers (details supplied) from 2012 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3685/23]