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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Did Ms Hardiman state that CHI does not accept the Dixon report or that it does?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: To be clear, an email from Ms Hardiman's office in October 2019, when she was chief executive of CHI, to the Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Paediatric Advocacy Group, stated: The registry for children with Spina Bifida across CHI is currently being validated at Consultant level. We are also [recommending] the recommendations of an external review of Urology services (Dixon report)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: But there have been no suspensions or anything like that because of the allegation of bullying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is a series of questions about the waiting list-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: -----but I wish to ask about staffing and the national children's hospital. I understand that there has been a long-standing call from the national children's hospital to the HSE regarding staffing. Can the witnesses provide the up-to-date figure regarding the staffing level required to ensure that the existing level of service will be maintained when CHI moves into the new building next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Yes, but what is the number? The information I have indicates that 382.8 whole-time equivalents were requested three years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: What is the number now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Can you give us the number? We need to understand. We want to support CHI and ensure it gets the staff it requires in order to ensure the services will be up and running when it moves into the hospital next year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 422. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has any plans to purchase an available near Crofton Road in Dún Laoghaire, adjacent to St. Michael’s Hospital, to help alleviate parking issues at St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 427. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists employed by the HSE, per local health area, per grade, from the years 2018 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33474/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (19 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 428. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists contracted to the dental treatment services scheme, per local health area, from the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33475/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 165: In page 73, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(10) Where an application is made to the District Court under subsection (1) for an order authorising the reception, detention, and care and treatment of a child in a registered acute mental health centre, the Executive shall report to the Court— (a) whether the centre concerned is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the witnesses. It is important to state that HIQA should not underestimate the anger and concern of the public. As an organisation, HIQA has been trusted by the public but that trust has been seriously dented. I have a series of questions. I ask for brief answers in light of the short time we have. Who has been referred to An Garda Síochána? Is it the registered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Is there any situation in which the registered provider is referred to An Garda Síochána? Is it ever held responsible for what happens in its home?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: And it is directed to the staff in this regard, who will be held accountable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Clare Doyle, the whistleblower, made a series of protected disclosures along with a number of others. I understand one nursing home that was not subject to the "RTÉ Investigates" programme was part of her protected disclosures. What actions has HIQA taken with regard to her protected disclosure and that nursing home? There is a lot of attention on residents and Beneavin Manor because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I am hearing that the third nursing home about which Clare Doyle made a protected disclosure has not actively been investigated by HIQA or investigations have not been completed at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I have not named the nursing home; I am asking HIQA. HIQA got a protected disclosure with very specific details. Has it acted or not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: But Ms Cliffe is saying patients are not safe at this point in time if a fire was to break out in that residence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for coming before the committee. In the context of the registration of nursing homes piece, there is so much to be aghast at in this interim report we received last night. How is it that a company can buy a nursing home and effectively piggyback on the good work of the previous owners and not have to register with HIQA? If I wanted to set up...