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Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 407. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on his Department’s consideration of the Law Reform Commission's report entitled 'A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding', and its recommendations; the timeline he is working towards in drafting a new safeguarding Bill; if he will commit to establishing a new and fully independent national safeguarding authority; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s work in respect of establishing a funding model for a statutory right to home care; the options being considered; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 409. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the work of the Commission on Care for Older People; the timeline for completion of each of the three modules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review into urgent and emergency care capacity in the mid-west region; if the terms of reference have been finalised; the timeline for delivery of findings and recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the special scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long-covid, following the three-month extension announced in April 2024; if he will replace the temporary scheme with a long-term occupation illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 412. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to the latest progress report of the strategic workforce implementation group on home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants, and specifically recommendations one, three and eleven, which are impacted by the HSE recruitment freeze; the steps he is taking to ensure that these recommendations are delivered; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE pay and numbers strategy for 2024; the timeline for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the strategic review of radiation therapy which commenced in December 2022; the timeline for delivery of the report and recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30806/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the strategic review of general practice; the timeline for completion of the final report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30807/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a practice in public hospitals (details supplied); if a directive has been issued to public hospitals in respect of this practice; if all public hospitals have KPIs for cancer care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30808/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 417. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 6 December 2023, to provide an update on the health technology assessment on the shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine; if the finalised report has been submitted to him following public consultation on the draft findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30809/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the application for reimbursement of the drugs Ibrutinib and venetoclax, used for the treatment of patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30810/24]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Domestic, sexual and gender-based violence should never be tolerated but too often it seems that our institutions are set up to do just that. Women are told to report it and to trust the system, but how can victims be expected to trust a system that so often fails them? While the Minister has demonstrated a commitment to addressing many of these failings, recent controversies have shown...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise for being late. I was speaking in the Chamber. I would like to particularly welcome the Minister of State back to this room in a different capacity. I wish him very well in his new role. I would like to start with the commitments in the programme for Government in respect of the epidemic, as it is described, of obesity. The first commitment was to work with stakeholders to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Just leaving aside the question of codes for the moment, what about the commitment on legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Is that the Department's approach, to work with manufacturers rather than introduce legislation?