Results 921-940 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: They need adequate community services. They deserve them, but it is also having a huge impact on the health service, with beds being taken up over a long period and people not being able to rehabilitate, get back to work and so on. These are the priority areas. I hope the Minister will give them attention.
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on Sláintecare. I do not know why it was not entitled Sláintecare and I do not know why the Sinn Féin health spokesperson is trying to rebrand Sláintecare. Its strength is that it is an all-party policy. That is what gives it real effect. I think we should stick with that and be at one with regard to what we are trying to...
- Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Thank you.
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will honour his commitment to legislate to ensure women going through a cancer diagnosis or other serious illness during maternity leave can defer that leave while they recover; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22063/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for their presentations. Why is nobody here from the clinical programme? Were apologies received from those representatives?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Did the Cathaoirleach receive a letter from them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is quite unsatisfactory, if that arrangement had been made. The other thing, of course, is that we will have to have the HSE and the CEO back before the committee because very clear commitments were given to us this time last year. We took those commitments in good faith and they are not happening now. It is really disappointing. Apart from the rights of people with neurological...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Was that the go-ahead from the HSE, from HR?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It strikes me that those posts should have been exempted because they were already funded and it was because of delays on the part of the HSE HR department that recruitment did not start. It was not a question of a lack of availability of nurse specialists.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It was because of its administrative delays. We need to tackle that very urgently. Looking through the ones that were not filled, there were five specialist nurses for MS, for example. Other positions were not filled in respect of Parkinson's disease, other neuromuscular conditions and Huntington's disease. Two are missing for epilepsy. The number of people impacted by the failure of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: On the neurological teams, it is very disappointing. We were given a commitment that recruitment would take place in early 2024. Now, late 2024 is being said. Is that actually going to happen? Does Ms Rogers know what stage that recruitment is at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is very understandable. Earlier, Ms Rogers spoke about one of the two teams in existence, in which there should be 12 members across different disciplines but there are only five.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Should there be 12 members in each of the teams? It is 12 members across nine CHOs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There should be 108 multidisciplinary therapists in those teams. How many members of those teams are there at the moment? There are two teams in existence. It is hugely understaffed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: To go back to Ms Rogers's point about the implementation strategy and the lack of energy, the implementation framework was established in February 2019. That is five years ago. How does that operate at the moment? Who is responsible for driving it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Who are the two joint chairs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is the NAI involved in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: How often does that body meet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is the head of disability in the Department or the HSE?