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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I thank all the witnesses for coming before the committee and I thank them and the members of their organisations for the extraordinary work they do in such difficult and stressful circumstances. The country owes a huge debt of gratitude to them, which makes the circumstances in which they are expected to work all the more shocking. Their conditions have not improved, instead they have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: My thanks to Dr. Colleran. I wish to confirm one point. She is saying there is no engagement on the issue of recruitment. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: What about the IMO?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Time is short and this committee wants to make a recommendation arising from this session. We would like to take this up with the Minister for Health as soon as possible. I want confirmation from the witnesses on whether there has been any engagement of any meaningful type in respect of this crisis of recruitment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: In spite of three reports and promises from the previous two Ministers.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements for vaccinating nursing homes for religious communities; if nursing homes for religious communities were omitted from the initial list for the vaccination programme; the number of homes and residents, respectively affected; the steps he is taking to ensure that the residents in these homes receive vaccines; and if he will make a statement...
- Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I am happy to have the opportunity to speak in this short debate on this technical order on the carry-over of capital expenditure. The Social Democrats are happy to acknowledge that they do not, in principle, have an issue with this and will comply with the requirement of a Dáil approval for that order. There is no doubt that the figure we are carrying over is very substantial at close...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I do not agree with the Order of Business. It is unbelievable that in the midst of a pandemic that is worsening in many aspects, there is no time allocated to discuss the Government's response to Covid. An announcement was made last week and no time was allowed to debate it whatsoever. There are umpteen aspects to this, including the fact that we are probably facing a public health...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Will it be in their rooms?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I ask the Taoiseach to answer the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: That is not having it both ways.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach has not answered any of the questions I asked him. His point about support for the airlines is nonsense. Of course we need to support airlines and airline workers if there are serious controls on travel. Throughout last year we had advice to self-isolate, which did not work. We know there was not any enforcement of this and that there was no serious system in place. This...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Everybody is paying a huge price in the curtailment of their personal freedoms.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach needs to put a system in place of mandatory hotel quarantining so that we have some prospect of people being able to exercise personal freedoms and so we can have some element of opening up the country to normality. That can be done with a zero Covid policy. It cannot be done-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: -----with a confused plan that the Taoiseach has now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Please do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: A number of us briefed-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: -----at the beginning of December-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach explain-----