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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach commit to publishing it this week?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The Government is in charge of the HSE.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise with the Taoiseach today the crisis in healthcare staff recruitment, specifically the crisis in recruitment of hospital doctors, and the serious implications for patient safety and the future of the health service. Currently there are 450 vacant consultant posts. Even if all of these posts were filled we would still have the lowest number of consultants per capitain the OECD....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach seems to be in denial about the facts of the matter. Ireland has the lowest number of consultants per capitabut is the highest exporter of doctors. We are the highest importers in the world of foreign doctors and there are huge problems associated with this. A number of those problems have been identified in this high level HSE report, access to which we have had only through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes developed since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; the number of new apprenticeships developed since 2017; the number of apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; if he will consider equality of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 251. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to difficulties posed to bereavement counsellors by GDPR in respect of precluding them from contacting family members of persons that have died in hospices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28488/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (3 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 913 of 10 July 2018, the outcome of the review by the Local Government Management Agency of the common recruitment pool; and the actions he has taken on foot of the review. [28328/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Data (2 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third-level students in each of the past ten years by the number of students born here; the number of EU, Swiss, EEA students and others; the percentage of each nationality in each of the years total student population in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27573/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (2 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 401. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed draft Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (temporary absence of pharmacist from pharmacy) rules 2018; if he has considered concerns raised by an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27623/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mobile Telephony Services (2 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the basis on which his Department has established that there are no discernible health implications from the roll-out of 5G here; and the extent to which medical guidelines underpinning same are updated and kept under review. [27986/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airlines Regulations (2 Jul 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the issue of potentially unfair commercial advantage for an airline (details supplied) and market distortion issues were considered before a decision was made in relation to the recently issued permit for the airline to operate a service between Dublin and Madrid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27921/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (26 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce insurance costs; if particular attention will be addressed to ensuring that insurance companies will reduce premiums when reforms are eventually implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27131/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (26 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of places for young persons in the Garda youth diversion projects in Dublin by area; if there has been a decrease in gardaí referring young persons to these projects; if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27130/19]

Home Help: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I commend Deputy O'Reilly and her Sinn Féin colleagues on the introduction of this motion. This is the second time in a very short period of time that we have discussed this issue, which is one of the most pressing issues in the health service. It typifies everything that is wrong with the way health services are provided in this country. I refer again to the principles that underlie...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) will be provided with a full-time special needs assistant when commencing secondary school in view of the fact the child has had same during primary education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26162/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Better Energy Homes Scheme (25 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 584. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the review of the better energy warmer homes scheme scheduled for mid-2019, will take place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26246/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Data (20 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of payment accounts with basic features that have been created in each of the years since the inception of SI No. 482 of 2016 by the financial institution providing same. [25944/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services Funding (20 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided to the Citizens Information Board in each of the past three years. [25935/19]

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: I am sharing time with Deputy Catherine Martin.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Róisín Shortall: In the few minutes I have available to me I want to again raise the issue of the long promised and much needed national maternity hospital to replace Holles Street hospital. This facility has been promised for some time. In 2012, the then Minister for Health, now Senator James Reilly, announced the move to the campus at St. Vincent's. At that stage, it seemed that none of the detail had...