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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It strikes me again that it is an issue of who is responsible. If a Minister can say they are all private practitioners and it is up to them to locate where they wish, that is a very good excuse for a Minister not taking responsibility for ensuring an adequate supply of GPs or other aspects of the service. That is why we need to consider the dual approach to this. If people want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am more than happy to support it very strongly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What is the percentage going into general practice at the moment from the graduate entry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There could be a dual system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I imagine Covid-19 had a lot to do with that in the past couple of years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There needs to be an equivalent for general practice. As can be gathered, the committee would be strongly supportive of what the ICGP is trying to do and we want to find out more about the strategic review group. We will definitely pursue it in correspondence with the Minister but will also, I hope, take this matter up directly in the new year. It was said there was a person in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is high.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I was just curious.

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats will not oppose this annual piece of legislation as we know it is needed to give legal authorisation to spending for the rest of this year and into next year. As has been the case for the previous two years, it is difficult to draw any sort of meaningful comparison with these figures. While normal life resumed for much of the country in the course of this year, Covid,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on progress to honour a commitment made in the Joint Policy Statement on Housing Options for our Ageing Population in 2019 that 30% of all new dwellings would be built to incorporate universal design principles to accommodate Ireland's ageing population; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 546. To ask the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 29 November 2022, the number of University of Limerick Hospital Group capital projects that the State has recently invested in; the plans under way to invest in further hospital capacity in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61715/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 584. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the campaign of an organisation (details supplied) to establish a working group to develop a national hearing plan, as recommended by the World Health Organization; if he intends to establish such a group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61911/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); if the results of the health technology assessment for evusheld have been circulated to the Covid-19 therapeutics advisory group, TAG; if TAG has reviewed the findings of the Health Technology Assessment, HTA, and made recommendations; if so, if he will publish these recommendations; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Telecommunications Infrastructure (8 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the section 254 licensing system for telecommunications infrastructure; if he will consider amending the relevant legislation to ensure that applications for this infrastructure go through the standard planning process, thereby facilitating public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of HSE contracts being awarded to a company linked to bribery (details supplied); the reason that the HSE continued to work with this company after the bribery was first exposed in 2015; the steps being taken to ensure that this is not repeated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61481/22]

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Suspend.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Given that this is potentially quite significant, I ask the Minister to clarify the area in which he is prepared to consider an amendment.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Informed rather than-----

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How long do I have? Misinformation was circulated earlier about-----

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, but my amendments were not included in the grouping in the first advisory we got. This had to be corrected well into the debate.