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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I do not know if the Minister is aware but reproductive health services are not currently provided to women in St. Vincent's hospital and it is hard to see that situation changing, given the expected structure of the new company, its basis and origins, particularly in the context of the repeal of the eighth amendment. Other basic women's health services, such as sterilisation services,...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister for that. I will move to the question of expanding services and dealing with issues over recruitment and retention, which are pressing issues in all kinds of disciplines right across the health service. Is there work going on at Department or HSE level to do essential forward planning to ensure our colleges have enough places to train the people who will be needed over...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I take it it is not the Sláintecare team doing that work. Is there a separate unit in the Department?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister expect that team to report soon?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Is it possible for that group to provide an update to the committee? We were talking earlier about this being one of the issues we intend looking at.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister. To pick up on the issue of the Sláintecare recommendation on three elective hospitals, it is disappointing to hear there seems to be a watering down of that. This was a key recommendation following on from the experience in Scotland and how it dealt with pressures on its acute hospital sector. There is a very strong case for having elective hospitals but they...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister. Two key elements of Sláintecare are improving access and removing cost as a barrier. First, where do things stand in regard to the extension of free GP care for children and when can we expect children up to 12 years of age to have access to free GP care? My second question is in regard to e-health. The experience over the past year has shown the huge weaknesses...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It was in regard to e-health.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry to cut across the Minister. While I appreciate that, an e-health programme was drawn up and the price tag was, I think, €800 million to €850 million, to be developed over a number of years. The original plan was to implement it over 15 years but Sláintecare recommended, given it is so critical to the efficient delivery of healthcare, that it should be...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate a note on the timescale for the implementation of the full e-health plan.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: On the extension of free GP care, the Minister stated that nothing is proposed on that for this year, which is quite disappointing given that over a five-year period, there was to be an incremental extension of free GP care to the entire population. We are probably the only country in Europe where the majority of patients have to fork out the full cost of visiting a GP, which very much goes...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Minister.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to return very briefly to the issue of housebound people aged over 70. The response we have received is not adequate. I have had contact from the family of a 90-year-old woman who is housebound. Her general practitioner referred her case in January. She has two people living in the house with her who are in education – they are teachers – with all the risks that...

Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (22 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (22 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2019 and for that purpose to amend section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in relation to ministerial guidelines, to restrict section 4 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 to applications received on or before the coming...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (22 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 39. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20984/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (22 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 153. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure the safe reopening of day care centres for the elderly; the timeline for the reopening of these centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20985/21]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (21 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the recoupment of the €10 million overpayment of rent for the Miesian Plaza; the specific engagement that has taken place with the landlord; the details of the way in which that overpayment will be repaid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20812/21]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (21 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise again the building in the Miesian Plaza, Baggot Street, that houses three Departments. An error that was made by the Office of Public Works, OPW, in measuring that building has resulted in an overpayment of rent of approximately €344,000 per year, amounting to an estimated total overpayment of €10 million over the lifetime of the lease. What progress has been...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Office of Public Works (21 Apr 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am afraid the Minister of State's response does not align with what has been reported in recent weeks on this ongoing matter. It is one thing for the OPW to regret the mistake it made but what the public wants is for it to recoup the public money that has gone to the overpayment and ensure it does not continue. When I raised this matter with the Minister of State six months ago, he told...