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Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I have one amendment, amendment No. 21, calling for regulations to be brought before the Dáil for approval prior to taking effect and prior to this legislation coming into force. I believe that should be included in the first group of amendments because the objective is exactly the same. Will that be reviewed prior to the end of Second Stage? It is hard to know how many speaking...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. A briefing was called at short notice on Wednesday evening, which was highly unsatisfactory. We were told that this has nothing to do with house parties, yet the Government's portrayal is that it is all to do with house parties. I will come back to that later when we consider the regulations in more detail. That is no way to do business, however. We should not have to take key...

Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act) 2020 - Part 3: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I trust the Minister will come in for the remainder of this debate. Before the break, I was saying we would be much better off concentrating on building solidarity through clear messaging because the messaging has been very weak so far. It is really important to bring the public along with any new restrictions to ensure they see that there is a logic to those, that they are reasonable and...

Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act) 2020 - Part 3: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: A speaking order has been agreed.

Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act) 2020 - Part 3: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am sure the Ceann Comhairle has noted that a number of parties that insist on having priority over others have not bothered to show up this morning. That needs to be taken account of. The previous speaker spoke about putting the responsibility onto the public. Obviously, the public has a responsibility but the primary responsibility for providing leadership and taking action as...

Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 - Part 5: Motion (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Social Democrats supported the Act passed earlier in the year. In theory, we are happy to do so again, but it is very difficult to come to a definitive position on it given the lack of information. The proposals in the Act are very wide-ranging and have the potential to cause difficulties. It would have been helpful for some kind of assessment of the impact of the measures to date to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation in Budget 2021 for local drug and alcohol taskforces to support local projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32166/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (22 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the allocation in Budget 2021 for drug and alcohol taskforce; if this allocation is already committed in the three-year Strategic Health Initiatives or if it is in addition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32167/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give consideration to concerns raised by a union (details supplied) and school principals regarding the need to extend the planned class size reductions in order that DEIS band one senior schools, DEIS band one junior and vertical schools are included in the measure; if she will meet with the union to discuss same; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Multi-Unit Developments (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the powers of homeowners and management companies under the provisions of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 and related legislation, in relation to management agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 242. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 459 of 15 September 2020, 133 of 7 October 2020 and 174 of 14 October 2020, if his Department will provide a sample showing the exact format of the medical certificate required to certify that a secondary school student falls into one of the categories for a face covering exemption; if a copy of this sample medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: What is the purpose of the meeting and who are we proposing to invite in? There is basic information that we need. We all have lists of people such as science graduates, GPs and many other people well qualified to do it who applied months ago but have not been called. We need a response on that. There is also a view that, at this point, when we get to 1,000 cases a day, those cannot be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Why can we not have a time agreed now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That is just not on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: People should not have to be hanging around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: On the meeting next week, it is not just the HSE. It predominantly deals with the testing and has overall responsibility for tracing but it is important to separate the two. Tracing is predominantly the job of public health experts. With some of this stuff, when one asks Mr. Paul Reid a question about testing and tracing, he says public health or NPHET instructs the HSE on what to do. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I thank all our guests. I will concentrate on the issue of public health. Probably before last March, very few people knew there was such a thing as public health. From the point of view of prioritisation and resourcing in the health service, public health was exceptionally under-resourced. If we have learned anything from the past seven or eight months, it must be that we must...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate the Taoiseach answering my questions rather than continuing his row with Sinn Féin. That has nothing to do with me. I asked him two questions. I asked him about the provisions whereby single people cannot have visitors to their homes. They cannot have even one visitor to their homes. That is unreasonable. The Government has made a very small number of exceptions...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about high-risk individuals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am going by what is on the gov.iewebsite. I am talking about people who live alone, who may work at home and who are not allowed to have even a single visitor to their homes. That is what I want the Taoiseach to address, not the high-risk categories but regular people who live alone. What the Government is doing in this regard is unreasonable. The second question relates to what people...