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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if an investigation has been undertaken by his Department in relation to this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34438/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if urgent consideration can be given to the provision of a Garda station for areas (detailed supplied) in County Dublin in view of the rapid population growth here; if immediate provision can be made for increased dedicated Garda resources for the areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34508/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a community policing unit in a Garda sub-district (details supplied) in County Dublin; the number of Garda members by rank in this community policing unit in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; if this community policing unit is operational; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 320. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by those awaiting breast cancer screenings and checks in relation to increased waiting times; the steps he is taking to address these increased waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34439/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the value and nature of the contracts awarded to four companies (details supplied) in respect of the Covid-19 testing and tracing system; the procurement process used; and the controls in place to ensure value for money. [34489/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: This Finance Bill gives effect to the budget provisions. It is before us at what is unquestionably a very important and challenging time for our country. The Bill arrives in the middle of a global pandemic that has placed immense strain on our society, both in human and economic terms. We must recognise that. Nobody is suggesting that the crafting of the budget and the Finance Bill has...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: An error of judgment is not the same as saying that something was wrong, and the Taoiseach's deputy also knows that; he made that point. The Taoiseach is also engaging in this distortion. That agreement was not signed off by the IMO until 16 April and was not published by the Department for another month. The code of conduct applying to a Taoiseach specifies that officeholders should...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I know that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach is twisting-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach be straight with us?

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: By any standard, the past few days have been damaging to the Government. This has been another damaging episode for this short-lived Government. By extension, the past few days have been damaging to politics. We had the spectacle of a senior member of the Government being exposed for engaging in what can only be described as grubby activity for grubby purposes by leaking a confidential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise for being late as I was trying to be in two places at the one time as I had to attend the Convention Centre for Leaders' Questions. I have two sets of questions for the Minister. I apologise if they have been asked and I missed them. I will step back from Covid and all the other issues in the health service at the moment and turn to the reform programme, and Sláintecare in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I accept a number of points the Minister made, but aside from Covid, if we are waiting for peacetime in the health service, we will be waiting a long time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but Covid might be with us for some time. Hopefully, it will not be but it may well be. We need to move on with the reform programme. Everything we say we are aiming for, such as local services being accessible to people, accountability and value for money, cannot be achieved with the present structures. They simply cannot be. If the aim is to move activity out of hospitals into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The budgets are the key but so too is accountability for services. The HSE is a command and control organisation. I have stated in the context of Covid that there should be a separate agency for testing and tracing. It is so centralised. The idea of Mr. Paul Reid being called on to answer to problems in west County Kerry or north County Donegal just does not make any sense and leads to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: On the SOUND group that was raised earlier, we have all had involvement with that organisation. Can the Minister supply us all with a copy of the correspondence that he promised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Deputy Durkan made a point about the Dublin areas in which the Covid rates are particularly high and bucking the trend, including in my own constituency. Despite the imposition of level 5 the rates continue to rise, and very substantially. Is there a tailored strategy to respond? Unless we do that the virus will be out of control.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I suggest that granular tracing is possible in some areas due to the available of public health staff but that staff are not on the northside of Dublin. That is the kind of forensic approach that needs to be taken to identify exactly what is going on at community level.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: They are not consultants.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: A very important principle arises here. Does the Minister accept that these 72 doctors, who are specialists with full consultant qualifications, should be upgraded to a consultant grade? That is a straightforward question. Is there any justification for continuing to treat them less favourably than their colleagues in all other specialties? Is it not an absolutely shocking comment on the...