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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I agree that is what should happen. As far as I know, it is not happening. I would therefore appreciate a follow-up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Dr. Holohan will appreciate this is a really urgent issue. The absence of a plan for the roll-out of antivirals adds to the sense of insecurity and vulnerability of people who are immunocompromised. It heightens the fear of picking up the virus. Given the fact that we have ordered considerable supplies, why is there not a roll-out plan? Is it possible to get an update on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank Dr. Holohan for that. I asked a question about the time lag between the recommendations and the roll-out, as outlined in the case I just mentioned. I also refer to younger teenagers for whom there is a recommendation for the roll-out of vaccines. Is this effectively operationalised? What is the reason for that delay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Yes

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Does Dr. Glynn have any idea what the timescale is for NIAC to complete the work? It plays into the fears of people who are immunocompromised if their teenage children are going out and about and going to school and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: My final question is about the lessons learned process. What work, if any, has NPHET done to date on that? Has there been a look back and a learning of the lessons, be they good and bad, from the experience of the past two years? Is that under way or when is it likely to happen? What are the mechanisms for drawing down those lessons?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise for missing that earlier. How much contingency planning has gone on or is NPHET about to embark on that in the event there is another wave? Is that work under way? Who is taking responsibility for that?

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I commend Deputy Ward on bringing this motion to the House. It is comprehensive, detailed and timely and I urge the Government to support it if it has not already indicated its position. Having listened to the Minister of State's contribution a short while ago, a couple of issues arise. I will pick up on the final point made by Deputy Duncan Smith about the Minister of State's call for a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 205. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that referrals to the Workplace Relations Commission are being dealt with within satisfactory timeframes; his plans to address backlogs in cases; the position regarding the open competition which closed on 11 March 2021 and the appointments process for workplace adjudicators in the Workplace Relations Commission;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 19 January 2022, if he will give further consideration to addressing issues at national test centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4749/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 765. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment can take place for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4903/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 766. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to deal with the backlog in the BreastCheck national breast cancer screening programme; the reasons women under 50 years of age are not included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4905/22]

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

Róisín Shortall: 361. To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of the latest easing of Covid-19 restrictions, directives or guidance will be issued by his Department to hospitals on the easing of visitor restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 367. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) regarding a medical procedure for a child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4171/22]

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: From almost two years, our lives have been on pause. We have all been in a kind of limbo and it has been exceptionally difficult. However, for children and young people, this pause has had an especially profound effect. While milestones were missed and the freedom to play and socialise was severely curbed, the crisis in youth mental health accelerated. In fact, it is now at a serious...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How many?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach tell us how many?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Some of the 35 recommendations included in the report raise fundamental questions about whether the service is actually hopelessly deficient. The whistleblower here, Dr. Ankur Sharma, was a locum consultant psychiatrist appointed in 2020. He has now resigned from the HSE because he said he received no support and was sidelined after he blew the whistle. Again, serious questions are being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What about the whistleblower?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The report into the south Kerry child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, is truly shocking. It is very distressing for all of the families concerned. These parents did the right thing and went to south Kerry CAMHS to get professional help for their children. Some waited up to two years to access that service. Instead of helping their children, the service actually harmed them....