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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1146. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to replace the paper-based system used to collate home care applicants' details called the Common Summary Assessment Report (CSAR) with an electronic Single Assessment Tool (SAT); the timeline that he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55110/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1147. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed overview of the current age profile of home care workers employed directly by the HSE and those employed by external providers contracted by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55111/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1148. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a licensing framework for home care providers and secondary legislation, setting out the minimum standards with which providers must comply in order to be licensed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55112/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) from a person working in a Covid-19 testing centre; if he will outline the current situation in respect of the employment of staff carrying out Covid-19 tests in HSE centres across the country; if all staff in Covid-19 test centres will have their contracts extended; if not, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider funding all trainee educational psychologists, as has recently been announced for trainee counselling psychologists; the reason that only a cohort of third-year students will receive some funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53983/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline that she is working towards for holding interviews to provide financial support to students of educational psychology currently on training placements in the National Educational Psychological Service, who are due to complete their doctoral training programme in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53984/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the psychiatric services in Dublin, which are working with children and adolescents, outside the Dublin CAMHS units; if he will provide an outline of the various services provided, including by consultant psychiatrists, psychiatrists, junior doctors, registrars; the oversight mechanisms in place (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 292. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to reforming the nursing homes support scheme, also known as fair deal; if so, the timeline that he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53989/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 294. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 28 September 2022, the status of the payment of the Covid-19 recognition payment to eligible workers in non-HSE and non-Section 38 organisations; if a contractor is in place to assist with payment to cohorts 1-4; the timeline that he is working towards for paying all remaining staff; if payments will be issued...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the integrated care hubs that are already operating or scheduled to open; the full staff compliment for each hub; the number of staff who have been recruited to date in each in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53748/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports (details supplied) of increasing misuse of fentanyl; the steps that his Department is taking to combat abuse of this drug and the expected rise in misuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53817/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid clinics and post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid, by role, in tabular form; the number of vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53893/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Kearns for his presentation. I am sure that the Vice Chair, as the only other member of this committee who was a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare, will recall that this issue was the most dominant issue for that committee over the 11 months that it existed. It was the issue of most concern not only to members of the committee but also to patient groups, staff...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Fundamental to the dysfunction that exists in the health service at the moment is the fact that there is a block of funding, the lion’s share of which goes to the hospitals. This is not necessarily based on anything and it can be for traditional reasons, wherever a Minister happens to be or whatever. The lesser share, then, goes to community. Fundamental to this plan, if it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: To clarify in relation to the hospitals, in the west, the hospitals in the Saolta group, for example, would be in the local RHA, but that situation would not apply in other parts of the country. The hospital groupsper sewill no longer exist under this proposal. Is that not right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The relevant local hospitals will be reporting into the RHA. At the hospital level, what is the attitude there, given the historical way in which hospitals have operated, when they have had the ear of the Minister, or whatever? Is there a recognition that we need to move to that single budget so that, for example, there are not 600 delayed discharges from hospitals for want of funding for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is it Mr. Kearns’s sense that people are up for this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, that is fine. I have one other question. The Chair will recall that we had Professor Tom Keane before the Oireachtas committee to share his experience with the cancer programme and to give us advice on how we may go forward. I recall him saying that essential to this reform was ensuring that there was legal accountability at clinical and administrative level for decisions taken, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Have the Department and the HSE bought into that?

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill. It is always good to have time and space between the announcement of the budget and the consideration of the Finance Bill because it gives an opportunity to clear away some of the fog and spin and to understand exactly the impact of the budget provisions. One of the most disappointing aspects of budget 2023 is its permanent...