Results 341-360 of 2,216 for speaker:Marie Sherlock

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Have there been any interventions or direct action taken to suspend any activity in Naas at the moment?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 85. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider expanding the requirements of the labour market needs test to include roles advertised on the Public Appointments Service, in order to fulfil the requirement for a general employment permit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36619/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 263. To ask the Minister for Health to outline details of the recent move of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and Quality Authority; the impact this development will have on the speed at which vaccines could be added to the national immunisation programme bearing in mind it currently takes on average six years; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 264. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been an increase in the budget and extra resources allocated to the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) arising from the recent move of NIAC from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and Quality Authority as a consequence of this move; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36488/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee will remain an independent committee with the ability to define their own work programme, arising from the recent move of NIAC from the Royal College of Physicians to the Health Information and Quality Authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36489/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (2 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the means by which a SUSI grant applicant (details supplied), who is being accommodated through the rent-a-room scheme, can satisfy the requirement to confirm their independent residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36274/25]

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: In Ulysses, James Joyce referred to O'Connell Street from the GPO to Parnell Street as "the dead side of the street." Some 102 years on, not much has changed. Indeed, things have got worse if we think of the wasteland of the Carlton Cinema site and Moore Street, where the top floors of many buildings are held up by bricks. I thank Sinn Féin and an Teachta Ó Snodaigh for this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jul 2025)

Marie Sherlock: When will the Government publish the long-awaited policy framework on the use of commercial drones in this country? It was due in 2023. It is now 2025 and we still have nothing. All the while, Government Ministers, when abroad on trade missions, have been promoting Ireland as a destination for unmanned aircraft or drones. Of course, drones can have a positive impact, particularly in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 6. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to strengthen the inspection and regulatory regime in HIQA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34932/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: We are all reeling from the revelations about Beneavin nursing home and the nursing home in Portlaoise in recent weeks. It is clear that HIQA has given a wide berth to nursing homes when it comes to its inspection regime, which is in sharp contrast, I might argue, to how other authorities regulate, such as the Food Safety Authority and the Health and Safety Authority. I wish to hear from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. There are four clear systemic issues within HIQA at the moment, notwithstanding that it is a much-trusted institution in the public's mind. That confidence has been dented, however. Clear legislative change and clarity are needed in four areas. The first issue is in regard to the licensing. I welcome what the Minister is saying about the licensing of corporate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is an added piece with regard to leadership. In the responses at the health committee last week, in the instance of Beneavin nursing home, there is 100% non-compliance with fire safety systems in that building. We were told that it does not relate to the structure, but rather only to the fire systems. If the fires systems are not fully operational, there is an immediate fire risk....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 4. To ask the Minister for Health if she will act to protect front-line healthcare workers impacted by long Covid and who are in receipt of the special scheme of paid leave; if she plans to extend this scheme or recognise long Covid as an occupational illness to quality for occupational injury benefit payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34984/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister knows, the scheme for special leave for those who contracted long Covid is due to expire on in four days on 30 June. A total of 166 section 38 organisations and HSE employees are currently in receipt of this payment. To be frank, the response to date has been downright disrespectful and degrading to those who gave so much and risked so much at a time of such uncertainty and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister knows, people's lives have been turned upside down by long Covid. This is not any ordinary type of illness. This was contracted in the workplace, yet there has been a persistent refusal by this State, in sharp contrast to the vast majority of EU member states, to recognise Covid as an occupational illness. The refusal to extend this scheme or to put in place a long-term...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: With respect, the Government is splitting hairs in distinguishing between Covid-19 and long Covid. Clearly, long Covid resulted from Covid-19. The reality is that the request has been for a framework to be put in place to support these specific workers. We are only talking about health workers. We are not talking about gardaí or the many other front-line workers who went out to work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 53. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is considering amending the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023 to ensure that this includes the advertising of all nicotine products, including nicotine pouches; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the specific actions her Department is taking to ensure that GP practices are being set up in disadvantaged areas and/or areas with few or no GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34933/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to implement the report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants, particularly recommendations five, six, and seven; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34929/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 121. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether the CAMHS unit based in the new children’s hospital will be fully staffed and operational on day one of operations, the actions undertaken by the HSE to ensure that this unit is fully staffed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34930/25]