Results 781-800 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 755.To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure that patients with chronic auto-immune disorders such as Sjögren's disease have access to appropriate and affordable dental care; his plans to reform the DTSS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Register (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 796.To ask the Minister for Health if the frequency and capacity of Dental Council’s registration examination for non-EEA dentists will be increased, in view of the fact that the exam is currently only held once a year and is oversubscribed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25176/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 853.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for approval and publication of the HSE’s Digital Health Strategic Implementation Roadmap 2024-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25368/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 854.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE’s savings target of €80 million on agency staff through the conversion of this staff to HSE employees, as outlined in the HSE Service Plan 2024; if a derogation from the HSE recruitment freeze will be sanctioned to progress this conversion of staff; if discussions with his Department have commenced; the status of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 855.To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency staff who have been converted to HSE employees to date in 2024, under the €80 million agency savings target outlined in the HSE Service Plan 2024, by role, in tabular form. [25370/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 877.To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 to prohibit the practice outlined in correspondence (details supplied); if the HSE referred this matter to his Department; if so, to outline the actions he or his officials have taken since then; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25551/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (30 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocation to each HSE and public voluntary hospital in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form. [24574/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (30 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 266. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 18 April 2024, the status of the strategic review of radiation therapy which commenced in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24575/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 267. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 8 May 2024, if he has engaged with the HSE in respect of immediate measures to address the shortage of public health nurses; to outline his immediate and longer-term plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24576/24]

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 86: In page 181, line 12, to delete “section” and substitute “paragraph”. This amendment would ensure that all non-clinical conceptions up to this paragraph coming into operation would be covered by the legislation, as opposed to just those up to 4 May 2020, the date on which the section of the Child and Family Relationships Act was...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I accept what the Minister is saying and will withdraw my amendment.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The passage of this Bill through the Dáil today is a really important landmark. It is undoubtedly very warmly welcomed by many of the campaigners seeking recognition of their parent-child relationships. Huge credit goes to those campaigners for their tireless and compelling work making the case so strongly to legislators that this issue should not slide down or off the political...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister not accept the point I have made that there is now a splitting of motherhood or the concept of motherhood? For other purposes, it was assumed that the birth mother was the genetic and gestational mother. That is no longer the case in a situation of surrogacy. There is a distinction between the genetic mother and the gestational mother. The constitutional provision to...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am withdrawing the amendment. This is another gun to the head situation, it seems.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 77: In page 164, to delete line 17.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 80: In page 168, lines 13 to 16, to delete all words from and including “that” in line 13 down to and including “waiver” in line 16 and substitute “if it is satisfied that the best interests of the child justify such a waiver”.

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 84: In page 181, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “Insertion of section 4A into Act of 2015 232. The Act of 2015 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 4: “Best interests of the child 4A. Where, in any proceedings before any court under this Part, the court, in determining whether to make an order, shall...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Minister give an assurance that if a person is intending to proceed with something that is not in keeping with the legislation, there are no circumstances under which that person could be prosecuted, for example?

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Where they knowingly-----

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. Thank you.