Results 821-840 of 23,778 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if a company will be in a position to begin the diabetic retina screening programme in January 2024 (details supplied); if this organisation has signed its contract with the National Screening Service; the reason the National Screening Service appointed a sole bidder for all of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54381/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Constitutional Amendments (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to matters raised in correspondence regarding the wording of the proposed constitutional amendment to the definition of a family (details supplied); when an announcement will be made in respect of the proposed wording; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54097/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the health technology assessment on the herpes zoster vaccine which also protects against shingles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53921/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of properties owned by the HSE, by location, use and value, in tabular form; and the number of these which are vacant and the length of vacancy. [54094/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the number of properties rented by the HSE, by location, use and annual cost, in tabular form. [54095/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a matter in relation to a SUSI grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54024/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are now telling us that it will be at least ten years since the Sláintecare proposals for elective hospitals before the first hospital will be built and operating. Is that not the case? That will be in Galway, and it will be at least ten years. That is just shocking. The proposal was based on the experience in Scotland where a decision was taken by NHS Scotland to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. The last time, when Mr. Watt was in here, he said it would be very shortly, in the coming weeks. He said that in September. When I tried to press him, he said it would probably be just after the budget. Now the Department is saying sometime next year. What is delaying it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has a site been selected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Who is in charge of this? The witnesses are all, nearly, the most senior people in the Department. Has the site been selected for one or both of the Dublin hospitals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Hang on a second. Will Mr. Patterson please speak in straightforward language? We were told by the Secretary General that the decision would be taken just after the budget, and Mr. Patterson is saying now that the site selection process is ongoing. What on earth does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: As far as Mr. Patterson is concerned, has the site been selected?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: We cannot operate on the basis of this kind of doublespeak, with all due respect. We need decisions taken. When we are told something, we need there to be a follow-through on it. For at least a year we have been told that the decision will be taken shortly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: On these surgical hubs, it was said that the north Dublin one is a turnkey solution. Can somebody explain exactly what that is and where it is going to be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. McCallion saying that the north Dublin one will be an existing building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When will that be announced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: It is a strong view of all of us that these are not a substitute for elective hospitals. The whole idea of elective hospitals is that they would mirror what happens in the private sector. The sports clinic in Santry is an example. It is a box. It is about volume and getting throughput of patients at speed. That is what the aim is. Why has the HSE not considered purchasing an existing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I am not talking about the surgical hubs. I am talking about the elective hospitals.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Has the HSE looked at existing facilities that could be purchased?