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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is there a proposed date for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is it the Minister of State’s intention to start it this year, assuming that restrictions will be shortly lifted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: There is no date, then, as of now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Through his press statement we received the intended membership of the national oversight committee and some omissions have been addressed. Is it his intention that the people who are currently appointed to the new committee will remain members for the duration of the strategy up to 2025 because there is confusing talk about civic society...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What is the thinking about a civic society group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: These would then be additional people to be appointed rather than alternative people. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Walsh for that reply. I would like to go back to the fact that no nurses are represented on the national oversight committee, an issue that has been raised. I ask that the thinking on this be explained, when there is a very heavy representation from psychiatrists, for example. They, obviously, have a role but it seems extraordinary that the Minister of State has a number of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: My apologies to the Minister of State but I do not understand what he means by that comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What is the Minister of State's view on the need to have representation from addiction nurses and specialist nurses in this area? Why have they been excluded? Surely they should be key members of the oversight committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It just seems strange to announce the membership of the NOC without addiction nurses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is that the Minister of State's intention?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It has long been recommended that addiction nurses should prescribe within the drugs services. This was recommended going back to the Carroll report. Why have we not seen any progress in that area? Nurses are centrally involved in the provision of services yet they cannot prescribe. Why is that restricted to doctors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I do not understand the rationale there. It is long recommended that nurses play a central role in prescribing across a whole lot of areas but particularly in the addiction area. It was recommended several years ago. I cannot understand why it is not happening now. Nurses are working in the treatment centres. It would make absolute sense that they would do the prescribing. They take a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That does not explain why it is not happening. I ask the Minister of State to give attention to this. It is long overdue. I am also really concerned about the fact that while people talk the talk of recovery, the actual services that are being provided do not encourage recovery. They do not encourage progression through OST. It is clear from the figures that large numbers of people get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about the Covid plan. I am talking about thousands of people who are stuck in this limbo of OST long term without the supports to move on, progress and aim for recovery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, the Minister of State referred to this as an interesting point. It is a lot more than that. It is a central point in respect of providing the kind of supports that help people look forward and aspire to recovery. Why is that not a central tenet of the approach to drug treatment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What percentage of people currently in methadone treatment have a care plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is it not the case that every person in treatment has a care plan? Should that not be the objective?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Why do they not?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (19 Jan 2022)
Róisín Shortall: 833. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislative position in relation to second-level schools allowing female pupils wear trousers instead of skirts as part of their school uniforms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2138/22]