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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 790. To ask the Minister for Health if clinical guidance from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK, which states that women who are 28 weeks pregnant and beyond are at increased risk of becoming severely ill should they contract Covid-19, has been considered in line with the HSE's policy with regard to risks that Covid-19 poses to women; and if health and safety...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (8 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 795. To ask the Minister for Health if all orders and requests for the flu vaccine have now been provided to general practitioners and pharmacists; if the HSE retains some supply; the extent of those supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42132/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Pollution (3 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received recommendations to address traffic air pollution from the working group on urban transport-related air pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40940/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Quality (3 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a local air quality monitor can be installed in an area (details supplied). [40941/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum weekly rates of payments applying to the pandemic unemployment payment at various dates in 2021 further to her announcement of the extension of the deadline for new applicants to apply for the pandemic unemployment payment; and her plans to alter these rates or applicable dates. [41017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (3 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 277. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of residential care units for children provided by NGOs or charitable organisations; the number of such organisations providing this service; the costs of this provision; the number of children placed in such provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (3 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 278. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of residential care units for children provided by private organisations on a for-profit basis; the number of such organisations that are approved by Tusla; the costs of this provision; the number of children placed in such provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41019/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There is a fair degree of caution and concern among the public about what is likely to happen over the next month or so in respect of Covid rates. In that respect, I feel that a lot of the public health messaging is quite weak and needs attention and reinforcement. I prevail upon the Taoiseach to try to get that right because people still do not know what the arrangements are going to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach's response does not inspire confidence. There is a lot of nervousness about the real dangers of the importation of the virus, but the Taoiseach has not provided any reassurance at all. We are into December now and we are likely to have a big increase in travel over Christmas and the new year. What the Taoiseach is saying is that at this point the Government is looking at...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: It should bring shame upon the Minister for Health and the Government that our student nurses and midwives are being exploited for cheap labour under the current clinical placement scheme. There is no other way of describing it. This has been a glaring issue for many years now but the severe additional pressure placed on student nurses and midwives this year during the pandemic has brought...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy in relation to two-tier pay among university teaching assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40634/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: People have been looking to stay at home and families have been looking for their older members to be able to stay at home with supports for years. The high number of people in nursing homes is a direct result of Government policy, which incentivises it. At various times, a figure has been put on the number of people who are in nursing homes and who should not be there and who do not need...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I would be happy to do that. A number of us raised the waiving of nurses' registration fees with the Taoiseach in the Dáil this morning and he categorically ruled it out. It would be welcome if the Minister tried to change the Taoiseach's mind on that. There are two concerns about the decision to approve and roll out the vaccine in the UK. According to Kingston Mills, this has not...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: This Supplementary Estimate is not just the figures that the Minister has presented today. There has been some moving around of budgets too. One relates to capital spending on the national children’s hospital. We know that there has been an underspend of €166 million. We had the children’s hospital board here to address the delays which have happened for various...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Another area where there have been savings is from the cost of patients, including low-income patients. We were talking about Sláintecare earlier, and apart from reorienting services, a key element of Sláintecare, if not the key element, is removing cost as a barrier to accessing care. There was an announcement in last year’s budget of a number of measures which would...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: This idea of introducing something because of savings being achieved somewhere else is nonsense.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There could be the same savings anywhere in the health service, except where services were cut.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Does rent for the Department's current accommodation come out of the Department's budget, the Office of Public Works, OPW's, budget or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's budget?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There is an issue about calculation of the floor space in Miesian Plaza, where the OPW has made a mistake. Is the Minister aware of that? Is the Minister aware of that? Apparently, the State is caught with having to pay €10 million extra. That works out at approximately €344,000 per year in additional rent, over and above what it should be paying, because a mistake was made...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: It was approximately three years ago. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform or the Office of Public Works do not seem to be in any rush to compel the landlord to calculate the rent based on the actual floor space. That €3r4,000 per year is a lot of money-----