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

Róisín Shortall: -----which could be put to much better use. I know the last contact with the landlord was in January.

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

Róisín Shortall: Perhaps, the Minister will come back to us with a note on that, if he does not mind. I will come back to the issue of consultants' contracts. There are a number of questions around that and I am aware the Minister has spoken about some of them already. We cannot run the health service unless we have enough consultants. It is clear there is a major problem. Whether it is with consultants...

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

Róisín Shortall: Regarding the Sláintecare contracts, the Minister said the commitment is 500.

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

Róisín Shortall: Sláintecare contracts. Is that correct?

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

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, new contracts. I thought the Minister's predecessor said that. I could be wrong. I do not know.

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

Róisín Shortall: Is it the Minister's intention that the existing vacancies would be filled with Sláintecare contracts?

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

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, including existing vacant posts.

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

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

Róisín Shortall: That is welcome because that is new, as far as I am concerned. I had not heard that before. My final question is on that pressing issue on the need to create those public health consultant posts. It is the only specialty where they are not consultants. This year, of all years, given everything the public health people have been doing, let us not have a strike. Is the Minister prepared...

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

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister make them consultants?

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

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister make them consultants?

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

Róisín Shortall: I know he is talking about the theory and so on. The Minister knows what they want and he knows what will solve this problem.

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

Róisín Shortall: That the 60 existing people are given the grade they deserve and for which they are qualified.

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

Róisín Shortall: It is in the Minister's hands to stop that. He knows exactly what they want.

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

Róisín Shortall: There will not be a strike if the Minister gives them the status they are asking for and deserve.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date of the most recent meeting with the landlord of a location (details supplied); the outcome of the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 636 of 3 November 2020, if the current tenant (incremental) purchase scheme 2016 permits council tenants in homes classed as a duplex to avail of tenant purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39678/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Guidelines (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected timeline for the issuance of updated development plan guidelines to local authorities; if he will be inviting public consultation on the draft guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40390/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a representative of an organisation (details supplied) can be invited to join the Pensions Commission in order to ensure that a person who is currently living on the State pension will be on the commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40490/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (1 Dec 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 578. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time it is taking to deal with traffic offences in district courts in Dublin; if there are undue delays in such cases being heard due to the Covid-19 emergency period restriction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39641/20]