Results 9,521-9,540 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 248. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on providing relief for local property tax for older persons who are paying very expensive nursing home fees for their spouses under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1538/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Administration (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 249. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on providing relief for local property tax for older persons who are paying expensive nursing home fees for their spouses under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1554/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Process (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected timeframe for the full passage of the Public Sector Standards Bill 2015; the reason for the delays in the progress of the Bill; and the reason it has not proceeded beyond Committee Stage. [1638/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Process (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a consolidated table that compares the law now with what it will be after the Public Sector Standards Bill 2015 is implemented in terms of the new obligations on officials as promised in committee proceedings on the Bill. [1639/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Maintenance Payments (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 434. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish a statutory child maintenance service in line with similar agencies in other states; his views on whether requiring parents to seek recourse through the courts to obtain child maintenance places an unnecessary financial burden on parents and creates additional work for the courts system; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Industry Regulation (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 478. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislation that governs the regulation and registration of private security firms operating on behalf of a bailiff or the courts; the progress of the working group that has been established to examine the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1536/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 486. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources set aside for the operation of the Garda anti-corruption unit; the benchmarks that will be used to ensure it meets international best practice standards in investigating corruption; and if statistics will be gathered and published on the number of allegations and-or reports, detections, investigations and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 505. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the joint labour committee Sunday rates for security workers; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many security staff are of the view that the Sunday rate should be increased to double pay in line with many other workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54530/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 777. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 6 November 2018, the status of his plans to put in place a financial support scheme for women seeking assisted human reproduction and IVF treatment, or both; if he has identified and considered policy options for a public funding model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1539/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 626. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 4 October 2018, the reason deprivation rates and area socioeconomic profiles are not used to calculate funding allocations for funding for home care packages; the reason he has not directed the HSE to develop a funding model that takes these factors into consideration when allocating funding; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 674. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure there are sufficient numbers of suitable nursing home places available in the case of older persons that require residential care being discharged from hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54540/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 723. To ask the Minister for Health the analysis his Department has made of the recent OECD report on pharmaceutical innovation and access to medicines (details supplied); his views on the recommendation to publish authoritative information on industry activities and the risks, costs and returns from research and development to better inform policy decisions such as drug pricing; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 776. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 is eligible for treatment and to be provided with glasses under the community ophthalmic services scheme as outlined in the HSE response to Parliamentary Question No. 919 of 17 April 2018; his plans to ensure the person is provided the services to which they are entitled; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 786. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the delay in negotiating a new general practitioner contract in view of the promise to do so by successive Ministers; the occasions on which his Department and the HSE have met with representative bodies of general practitioners regarding the contract negotiations; the outstanding issues to be resolved; and the timescale he is operating...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 787. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the discussions regarding the governance and ownership of the new national maternity hospital; if he has received the text of the agreement that was agreed in principal in December 2018 according to media reports (details supplied); if he will publish the details of this agreement without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 788. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the progress of the detailed 2019 action plan to implement Sláintecare; the reason for the delay in its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1598/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 789. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges by hospital; if he will provide a progress report on the 550 homecare packages that were announced as part of the winter plan of the HSE to deal with delayed discharges; the hospitals that have discharged patients under this scheme; the number of patients discharged from each; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 790. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his plans to introduce exclusion zones for protests around health institutions such as general practitioner offices and hospitals in view of recent events; the timescale he is working to in order to deliver these exclusion zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1600/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal actions that have been lodged against the HSE over the CervicalCheck cervical screening controversy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1692/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (15 Jan 2019)

Róisín Shortall: 1037. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to amend the laws surrounding presumed legitimacy to simplify the process for women seeking a divorce and attempting to register the birth of a child whose father is not their husband from whom they are seeking a divorce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1537/19]