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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It should certainly have been picked up long before now. This is the point I am making. Will Mr. Gloster outlined to us what steps will now be taken to fast-track their recruitment of the 12 neurological nursing posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I have had to devote all my time to that. I will come back in later to ask about two other issues.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. I want to stick with the issue of neurological services. I want to tease through what has happened in recent years. Many thousands of people have neurological conditions in this country, such as Parkinson's disease, MS and epilepsy. Many of these conditions are extremely debilitating if they are not diagnosed and treated early. They can have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Dr. Burke is going to send us details of the different CAMHS teams, the number of vacancies and what kinds of vacancies there are in each area. There is other information that we will also need. We have all been in touch with Families for Reform of CAMHS. The information they are feeding back to us regarding the experiences of families is quite shocking. The other piece of information...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Has it been approved by Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: We are talking about the capital plan for 2024 coming out in the second half of the year, which is strange. We are into the second half of the year now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It just seems incredible that it is July and we have not seen the capital plan yet. Primary care centres are obviously a critical element of the roll-out of proper community services and a switch to the Sláintecare model. I have a fundamental problem with the approach the HSE is taking with regard to the different methods of procurement. If you look at highly disadvantaged areas,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I should probably have said State-provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the HSE still have a priority list?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am familiar with that; I am just saying that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: -----the State has to step up to ensure there are facilities in disadvantaged areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry, it is 12 years later. I would like some detail on the State-funded aspect, by whatever method, whether PPP or direct build-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: So maybe just over the past few years. The State-funded ones were referred to in the report but there are not any figures. For, say, the past ten years, Mr. O'Connell might provide some detail of what ones have been fully funded by the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That information would be very helpful. I thank Mr. O'Connell.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Ceann Comhairle, the Taoiseach and party leaders for their very kind good wishes for Deputy Catherine Murphy and me. We very much appreciate them. I want to return to an issue I raised with the Taoiseach last month, that is, changes in Revenue's rules about the taxation of GP income, which very much affect GP charities. I am thinking, in particular, of a charity run by Dr....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 465. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to the difficulties faced by many Long Covid patients in accessing Covid-19 booster vaccines, in particular a non-MRNA vaccine (details supplied); if he will engage with the HSE to ensure that there is a clearly documented process to signpost how Long Covid and immunocompromised patients can access the non-MRNA vaccine; and...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: He could be in another party.

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Last week on the Order of Business I raised with the Taoiseach that seven years ago, as Minister for Health, he gave a commitment to introduce a statutory right to home care. Given the failure of that Government and the current Government to follow through on that commitment I asked for a debate on that issue today. We have a debate, but it is not on the statutory right to home care. It...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I commend the Minister of State on bringing this legislation through all Stages in the House. I thank the officials involved. It is important legislation. While I would have liked it to go further, we await the report of the expert group. I hope when it is delivered to the Minister in July, he does not sit on it for too long and it is published so we can move forward in utilising and...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is regrettable that the Minister of State is not taking this on board. She said the timescale is too short, but I am requesting that the Minister provides a report within six months and that is reasonable. I am not saying that a scheme has to start within six months; I am saying that we should have a report on it and I think that is a reasonable request to make. It makes absolute sense...