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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Can you hear me, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I want to thank all our witnesses today. Many of the questions being asked by members are questions that require political answers and it is unfair to take it out on some of the people today who are administering the schemes. The decisions with regard to who gets a medical card or a GP visit card are essentially political ones and it is important to bear that in mind. We are told that 42%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Are we talking about the middle of next year at the earliest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It would be into next year, obviously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: To where have those resources been deployed? What are the people who might be expected to do that review doing now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Judge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Could I get a reply on the medical cards for unemployed people and children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. That has not changed. Is there a number for new applications on the basis of unemployment over the past year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. There are different reasons. What is the difficulty in adhering to the agreement relating to children's medical cards?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: That is not the way it was portrayed. Is there any timeline for commencing those negotiations?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Tánaiste answer some of the questions I asked?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I think the Tánaiste was really disingenuous in the answer he gave there. I asked him specific questions about things the Government had promised to do to play its part in the response to Covid. They were on things we have been through umpteen times and he did not answer a single one of them. How can he expect the public to stay with the Government and to stay the course when the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: After 12 weeks of severe level 5 lockdown, the daily Covid-19 case numbers remain stubbornly high. Leaving aside the kite-flying that has been entirely unhelpful in recent weeks, the question for the Government is what exact steps it will take to address this problem to drive down numbers and allow some level of opening society and the economy. The vast majority of people have severely...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister sort out the issue of recruitment of vaccinators? There are huge problems and we are all getting complaints about it. The application form is 14 pages long. No phone number is available for people to ring to clarify any point. People are complaining about their details getting lost. They are also complaining that they are repeatedly being asked the same questions for...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Not daily.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about what is delivered.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: What is the current target?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: The number administered.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the leave entitlements of a person who has become a parent through surrogacy; if it is planned to make provisions for a person who becomes a parent through surrogacy to take leave, including maternity, paternity, parental and-or adoptive leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/21]