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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if a specific information campaign for migrant families will be conducted following approval of the Covid-19 vaccine for children aged five and over; if so, the organisation responsible for producing and running said campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62391/21]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome all our witnesses. Mr. Woods mentioned a shift in the operating model during the last plan bringing us up to this year. I think it was for the period 2016 to this year. In terms of developing mobile service, what is the assessment regarding the progress made on that and its implications? How has this shift gone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: What percentage of paramedics would be higher-qualified community paramedics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Are there proposals to increase that number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Have training places been created?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: How many additional training places have been created?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: How many additional training places are there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: So Dr. O'Donnell is talking about additional training places from next September or October.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: How long is that additional training course?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: So it will be some time before those people come on stream. Regarding resources and what Ms Anne O'Connor said about the need for 90 ambulances and 180 staff, to what period does that calculation relate? Is it to bring the service up to standard currently or to cater for the projected demand of 107%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Over what period will that level of staff be required?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: There is a shortfall of more than 1,000 staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: In terms of projecting forward and the kind of increase in demand for service that has been set out up to 2027, which is only five years from now, what are the additional numbers that would be required over that five-year period? Has that been estimated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: What are the plans for providing those 2,000 extra staff? What is the timescale involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Is all training done by the NAS college or do other colleges provide the training?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: When does Mr. Morton expect to have plans finalised for an adequate number of training places?
- Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats are not opposing this Bill which is the annual housekeeping Bill. This year and last year were very exceptional years, obviously. Because it was so exceptional, it is very hard to do any comparisons or to talk about controls to any great extent. Nonetheless, some of the figures warrant some commentary. There are some stand-out areas, particularly health and social...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach did not address the issue of removing the age restrictions. It is a really important issue. I spoke today to a GP who told me that when a patient comes into his surgery for something else, he will ask if the patient has received a booster. He is quite happy to provide it and that can be done quickly, but if the person is not over the age of 50 or within the recognised...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: It is a constraint.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2021)
Róisín Shortall: What about records of the booster?