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Written Answers — Department of Health: International Bodies (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13751/22]

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise a couple of points under this section. First, the patient advocacy service is very good but it is under-staffed. I hope the Minister will move quickly to recruit additional staff. The Minister also made the point that it does not work in private nursing homes. Given the extent to which the State depends on private nursing homes and that they are largely funded by State...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: This is probably the most important element of the legislation. Deputy Cullinane referred earlier to our experience in this committee with the south Kerry CAMHS issue. At that meeting, we were trying to get to the point where we could identify who was in charge and who was responsible. It was impossible to do that because there was no clear chain of command at all. There were various...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I very much accept what the Minister is saying. It is an exceptionally complex area to legislate for. In preparing the Report Stage amendment, can the Minister indicate if it will deal with the specific area of screening or is it a wider issue? In terms of trying to be specific about shortcomings in screening programmes, it is hard to do that. There are many implications then for the...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Will that relate to a situation like we had in CervicalCheck where when the outcomes of the screening programmes were audited, which is desirable, and that information emerged, there was the failure to disclose that. Is that the scenario the Minister is talking about legislating for?

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Can I tease that a little more? Is the Minister saying that it would only be covered in circumstances where there was a patient safety issue in terms of an actual event as opposed to a diagnosis not happening due to perhaps shortcomings in the screen programmes? I would have thought the key issue is not that something goes wrong, which it can do from time to time, but how it is handled and...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for that. That is good.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to tease this out a little bit. We had two very stark examples in the recent past of reports being produced on poor practice, let us say. The reports, namely, the Grace report and Brandon report, have not been published. People are still waiting for those. We were told both of those reports could not be published because they were being referred on to the Garda. They were...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate that. I thank the Minister for that clarification. Perhaps when his asks the Department to prepare that note, for general information for the committee, the Minister might also ask it to produce a note on the reasons those two reports I mentioned are not being published.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and to outline some concerns regarding business supports in the short term but probably more importantly in the medium term. Before that I would like to take moment to reflect on the past two years and the role of the State during this period. While we in the Social Democrats might have done some things differently during the pandemic, we all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: We know the Cabinet was given stark warnings last night about the risks to our economy as a result of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. These included the possibility that household gas and electricity might need to be rationed, that public transport services might be cut and that food prices could rocket even further. How likely is the prospect of gas and electricity being rationed? Is this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the excise measures to cut fuel prices he announced last night. I welcome those measures but I want to ask him about his intentions with regard to some other measures that have recently been discussed. Cutting 15 or 20 cent off the price of a litre of diesel or petrol will really only bring us back to where we were two weeks ago with regard to prices....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a baby (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13401/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a baby (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13381/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the situation facing job initiative scheme community workers is being considered in relation to the plan to introduce a living wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13380/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for their presentations, and thank them and all of their members for all of the work they do to keep the health service afloat, not only over the past two years where their contributions were outstanding but on an ongoing basis before and since. It is remarkable that so many people have referred to the fact that there is a solution. We talk about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Do we know at this stage how many of these types of posts are necessary for the full roll-out of chronic illness management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How many are there now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: They are based in hospitals.