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Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The experience with the Ó Cualann housing co-operative in Ballymun has demonstrated how very good-quality, carbon-neutral, three-bedroom houses can be built for €200,000.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: There is no reason we cannot build large numbers of houses at that price on the very many publicly-owned sites available in Dublin and throughout the country. This is the type of approach taken by many Governments in the past, even when times were very hard. It is a cruel irony that at a time when the country was never wealthier, so many people are locked out of housing completely. There...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: It is our Private Members' time.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Fianna Fáil should do something.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Did Deputy O'Brien read the motion?

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is wrong.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I ask the Minister to produce the evidence.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I asked the Taoiseach a question about Holles Street hospital a few weeks ago. In his response, he spoke about three proposed new hospital buildings. He continued: All three of those hospitals, including Holles Street, are privately owned. The difference is that when the new ones are built, they will be publicly owned. They will be State-owned buildings on State land. I welcome that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I asked the Taoiseach. It is in relation to a statement he made.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (28 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 164. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent joint statement from each previous Minister with responsibility for the drugs strategy calling on him to give greater priority to supporting drugs task forces in their work and ensuring that agencies and Departments play their part in the response to the escalating social problems associated with drug misuse; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision (28 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the severe shortages of services for children with mental health problems in the north-western areas of Dublin in which there are now significant waiting lists for assessments in primary care and for therapy; and the specific steps he will take to address the matter. [49572/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (28 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a group (details supplied) and its campaign to eliminate deficits for section 39 organisations in the adoption of the recommendations of the independent review group in the sector and to fund the full restoration of pay for the organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49574/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a newly formed group (details supplied) representing home owners in many developments with serious construction defects; if the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, Safe as Houses, of January 2018 will be implemented; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Data (27 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the costs associated with pay restoration for section 39 workers in 2019 and 2020 were factored into the fiscal space calculations for 2019 and 2020, respectively; the way in which the costs have been factored into future fiscal space projections, that is, if the estimated costs are included in the pre-committed amounts for public pay...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration (27 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in each remaining year to complete the pay restoration process for section 39 health and disability type organisations by pay costs and associated pension costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49277/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (27 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 156. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 345 of 5 February 2019, 201 of 19 June 2019, 497 of 9 July 2019 and 344 of 24 September 2019, the position regarding the staff breastfeeding in the workplace policy for HSE staff; if the policy has been signed off on by the HSE leadership team; the reason for the time delay; and if he will make a statement on the...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Sláinte), 2019: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Health) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I commend Deputy Harty on bringing forward this legislation. I know he has put a lot of work into it and he has gone out of his way to bring everybody else on board in terms of briefings. The Bill is an important piece of work which very much replicates work that has been done by other Members in recent times, in particular Deputy Pringle. There is a very strong desire on the part of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Professionals (26 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: On the question of consultants, how long is the Minister going to stand by and watch the haemorrhaging of consultants from the Irish health service? The situation is now at crisis point. There are over 500 vacant consultant posts. Many aspects of the health service are crumbling and in crisis as a result of this. People are dying as a result and are experiencing and enduring life...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Professionals (26 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Why has it not?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Healthcare Professionals (26 Nov 2019)

Róisín Shortall: We have a bigger population.