Results 701-720 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is €85 million.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure of the National Treatment Purchas Fund on patient care in private and public hospitals respectively, in 2022 and 2023. [27321/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on the Cross-Border Directive in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated under the Cross-Border Directive in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27323/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27324/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27325/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on contracting out radiotherapy treatment for public patients to private providers in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27326/24]

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on affordable electricity. Since the beginning of the cost-of-living crisis, spiralling energy costs have had a devastating impact on many families and workers. Many have been forced to make the stark choice between the various essentials in any family budget and trying to decide which of those essentials they will drop in order to be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total spend on the dental treatment benefit scheme in 2010; the cost to maintain 2010 levels of spending on the scheme between the years 2011 and 2023 respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the work of the Inter-Departmental Group on the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the timeline the Inter-Departmental Group is working towards in reporting back to Government; the number and dates of meetings already...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with Sjögren's disease who have availed of complex care under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form; and the procedures received. [26773/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures available to patients with Sjögren's disease under the Dental Treatment Services Scheme. [26774/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the public health obesity Bill committed to in the Programme for Government; the timeline for publication of the draft heads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 467. To ask the Minister for Health if the €5 million funding announced in Budget 2023 to support the HSE public dental services in addressing backlogs in children’s and special care services has been issued; to provide an update on the work undertaken by his Department to reduce the waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27116/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional patients seen on the dental treatment services scheme under the €5 million waiting list reduction scheme 2023; and the estimated total cost of these sessions per CHO area, in tabular form [27117/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 469. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend on the dental treatment services scheme in 2009; the cost to maintain 2009 levels of spending on the scheme between the years 2010 and 2023 respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27119/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Exemptions (20 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 202. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reply by the Minister for Finance to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 11 June 2024; his further views on whether the VAT exemption for counsellors and psychotherapists should be implemented ahead of the opening of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board; if he is pursuing this position with the Department of Finance; and if...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will probably be done by then. I welcome this debate on the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024, which I am taking in the place of my colleague, Deputy Jennifer Whitmore. I am disappointed the Bill has been drastically pared back, so much so that only seven of the children's committee’s 96 pre-legislative scrutiny recommendations are now relevant to the legislation before us....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to pick up on that point. The most disappointing aspect of this legislation is that it does not provide for the long-promised statutory right to home care. I was just reading the history of that promise yesterday and I saw that in 2017, the current Taoiseach, as Minister for Health, committed to the introduction of a statutory right to home care. That was 2017. In 2020, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Why does the Department not have that breakdown?