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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list and within that the numbers waiting less than 4 months for each local health area as of 1st October 2025 or latest date available; the number waiting 4-12 months, more than 12 months; and if she would indicate also for each category the numbers waiting aged 0-17 years and those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 81. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recommendations of the Walker report have not been implemented; the current status of their implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52819/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I acknowledge the Minister's bona fides in the matter of the maternity unit in Portiuncula hospital. She has acted at all times on advice in what she felt is the best interest of the safety of mothers and babies in the region. However, I want to ask her why the Walker report of 2018 was not implemented and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I acknowledge the mothers and babies who have experienced, at birth, sometimes catastrophic events. It is a small number of women but that makes it no less. I worked with the Minister on Portiuncula maternity unit on the premise that the Walker report had been delivered, but it manifestly has not been delivered. I do not believe the HIQA report. Last week, at the health committee, the CEO...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: We are not in a good space because the maternity unit in Portiuncula hospital is in trouble. For example, it was recommended by the Walker report that there be seven consultant obstetricians. It never happened. There were five at the most: three full-time, one on managed leave and one on managed sick leave. There was never a full complement. Someone second-guessed the Walker report, so...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of HSE staff currently employed in acute services and the proportion employed in community health services; the equivalent figures at the end of 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52219/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (2 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care support hours provided for older people in Roscommon in 2024; the target for same in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52218/25]

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I will start with a quote: What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It's the result of government policy - knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated. Yes, Israel is committing war crimes. They are the words of Ehud Olmert, ex-Prime Minister of Israel. The devastation in Gaza defies human...

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: The new proposed peace deal is remarkable for the lack of Palestinian consultation. It has been presented as a threat, with obvious equivocation about Palestinian statehood on the part of Netanyahu. It is an anaemic strand of hope for a ceasefire, for the release of all hostages, for humanitarian aid and for the rebuilding of Gaza.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I too apologise for being absent earlier. I was at a meeting of the health committee, of which I am a member, but I have read the witnesses' statements. A lot of the questions coming at the witnesses are probably rehashed, but one of the things that caught my eye is the problem of expulsion and suspension from school, which is a situation that...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: It is a huge issue around the country. I know we are dealing with education today, but it is a massive issue.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: It is a cause of great distress to parents who are getting older in terms of knowing what is going to happen. Ms Walker-Strong made a good point about having the option to come back into the community, but one of my patients took someone back into the community. It was not working out as they got older but there was no way back in. I have used the line before that an issue will be solved...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: It is the only option.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: As we know, the longer the hiatus grows when they go out of school, and I have found the same with adults who come out of day services, the more there is a resistance to go back in again.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I did not realise I would get a second bite of the cherry. We can take up where we left off the last time when the witnesses were answering questions on the competition between primary care, CDNTs and education for scarce allied health professionals. What are the witnesses’ views on that? How can we increase the number of allied health professionals...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: We seem to have gone from a time when people could only get a physiotherapy appointment in a hospital in the community - I am taking physiotherapy as an example, but it is interchangeable with speech and language therapy, not as a profession but rather as a group of professions that are hugely sought after, highly valuable and hugely skilled – to a point where there are...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: That is exactly the point I am making.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: Any interruption in recruitment and retention takes years to put right again. It is amazing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank the Minister and her teams from the HSE and the Department of Health for attending and for giving us their report. My comments will be on the issues of capacity, productivity and digitalisation. Insourcing and outsourcing reflect a lack of capacity in our system that is understandable because our population has grown by 1.2 million in the past 20 years. However, the public needs to...