Results 61-80 of 1,029 for long speaker:Róisín Shortall

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...build a second elective hospital. What is going on? You cannot help thinking that these surgical hubs are actually a substitution and that is the thinking somewhere. How could it possibly take so long? I am sick and tired of inquiring about the proposed elective hospital for Dublin. Then we are told that there are going to be two. We still have not heard any information about the...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...are hard to find. Paper trails run out and memories falter. Transparency is all too absent with our Government and political system having not fully embraced a culture of open decision-making. Along with undermining trust in the system, this lack of accountability also leads to massive amounts of public resources being wasted. These are, of course, resources that are very badly needed...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: .... There is a reduction of almost a quarter in dentists at a time when numbers in all other disciplines in healthcare are increasing significantly. We know that clinics are closing. There are long waiting lists. Virtually no preventative dental service is being provided. There is a collapse in the medical card system. In May, the Minister admitted there was a blind spot with regard to...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is a conflict in the figures. Last week we were told 21.9 million hours have been utilised and we still have a very long waiting list. What will happen with the demographics of an ageing population and the increased demand that will entail?

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...coming in and taking time to make points for whatever reason and then withdrawing amendments or, indeed, not turning up for the amendments. It makes a bit of a mockery out of the whole process and this is a long enough process anyway. It is not good practice. It is a recent development and a regrettable one. I am speaking to my amendments Nos. 7 and 8 on taxation generally. We heard...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...reads] as soon as practicable after the completion of the review, prepare a report, in writing, of the findings of the review”. What does "as soon as practicable" mean? That concerns me because that is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. The Minister is saying the review will be done within 18 months and, as soon as practicable, a report will be produced. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I was just curious about the use of that quote. How does verification of entitlement to the scheme work? How long does it take to get that verification from, presumably, Revenue?

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...morning, I queried the oversight of the operation of the big hospitals. I was told the reporting is not to the HSE or the Department of Health but to the hospital groups. I know from data I sought not so long ago on clinical directors that the reporting used to be to the HSE before it changed to the hospital groups. What is the governance and oversight of the hospital groups? In time,...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...An ageing population, commitments to future spending increases and various infrastructure deficits mean there is a need for significant future revenue increases. The Minister has been warned of that fact by a number of agencies, yet he seems to have ignored it again. This was being pointed out long before the Commission on Taxation and Welfare published its report, a key message of which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to conduct a cost benefit analysis into subsidising essential asthma medications which are excluded from the long-term illness scheme as a means of reducing unscheduled asthma-related GP, ED visits and hospital admissions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45896/23]

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...and anti-vaccine content. I am not by any means saying we should ignore the statistics for excess mortality because they are important but we should question the framing of this data by some, along with the reliability of some of the sources. When it comes to excess mortality, the two most commonly referenced sources are Eurostat and EuroMOMO. However, as Professor Anthony Staines...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...to do that. What I propose, therefore, in amendment No. 5 is that the Minister will be enabled to ban disposable vapes by regulation, at the stroke of a pen, without having to go back to the long, drawn-out primary legislation process. The Minister has stated in the media that he wants to ban disposable vapes and there are very strong public health recommendations for doing that, and...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ..., is there any contemplation at all of a second Bill on the issue of vaping. There is no mention of that anywhere in the legislative programme. The other point is that this committee spent a long time going through the pre-legislative scrutiny process. It took several months. The Minister's officials would presumably have been aware of what was coming up there. He would have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...Lucey speaking recently on the radio about the difficulties with upstream services. There is a lot of focus on CAMHS but there should be a lot of support, services and help available to people long before they get to CAMHS. The commission talks about developing a model. A plethora of different organisations provide different types of support, services and counselling. There is the HSE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: How long had that post existed?

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...actually do not need it, an emphasis on short-term measures rather than lasting structural measures, and not a whole lot that will substantially change our country for the better in the medium-to-long term. There was an opportunity with this budget, given the resources available, to do some transformative things, to tackle the big problems facing the country and to ensure that we were not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: .... It makes no sense whatsoever to leave these homes vacant in the context of a housing crisis. Nor does it makes any sense from a climate perspective. We know that most other countries have long had regulations in place to address this waste. The Government has been very slow to address it, and has unfortunately taken a conservative approach. Will the Minister update us about where we...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered recommendation one of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare that, given the medium-to long-term threats to the State’s fiscal sustainability, the tax base should be broadened; if he will commit to implementing this recommendation; if he intends to act on this key recommendation in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I want to ask the Tánaiste about the long-promised statutory right to home care. This was promised in 2018. It was supposed to be in place by 2021. Two years later, there is no sign of the legislation. The advisory group recommended improved pay and conditions for the staff, who are very badly paid. Over the summer, the Government cynically agreed to pay those new rates and improve...