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National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Hear, hear.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Ceann Comhairle would be denying us all.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is a company that must uphold the values of the Religious Sisters of Charity.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Nowhere in the world is there a Catholic successor hospital that provides the full range of healthcare services for women. The Minister should own up to this. What he proposes to do and is claiming to do is simply untrue. It cannot happen.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister of State should speak to the subject.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: This is out of order.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to clarify a comment the Minister made earlier about the letter from the 52 doctors. He said he did not claim that the public comments were misleading and ill-informed. On 25 February, he will recall that he posted on Facebook, quoting extensively from that letter and the comments of the 52 doctors. At the end of his post he said: I share the view of the doctors that the...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: No, it does not.

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the publication of this women's health action plan. It is good to have concentration of the issue brought under one document to put a focus on that but I would say it is important that we bear in mind that women's health issues should be mainstream issues. Sometimes when there are women's sections or women's groups, that can result in the sidelining of those issues. Women's...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What about support for the working families that get no fuel allowance?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I ask the Minister what he is going to do as the Minister with responsibility for energy. I refer to those actions he actually could take this week if he had the political will to do so. Electric Ireland has, as we know, joined Bord Gais and Energia in hiking its prices. Its 1.3 million customers will now pay 23% more for electricity and 25% more for gas. The standing charge is also going...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There is an emergency situation. The Minister and Government need to do much more than just looking at things. Families cannot wait until the budget in October. The Minister asked for ideas. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Age Action, the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS, and other agencies like that have many ideas about things the Government could do now to relieve...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Where are the interest-free loans?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There is a waiting list.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 58. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the preparation of a business plan under the public spending code for the new national maternity hospital. [17065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for the authorisation of fifth freedom operations by an airline (details supplied) in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17389/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 430. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 751 of 1 March 2022, the consideration he has given to the need for an additional 100 neurology nurse specialists; the timescale for approval of these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on which workers will be entitled to the Covid-19 pandemic bonus payment recently announced for healthcare workers; when workers can expect this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17410/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 24. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve public transport links for an area (details supplied) on the north side of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16952/22]