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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that require extra hours under their existing home care package but in locations in which that need is not currently met; the accumulative number of hours that are unmet; his estimate of the cost of meeting that unmet need; and the way in which he has determined this figure. [6498/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that require extra hours under their existing home help arrangement but in locations in which that need is not currently met; the accumulative number of hours that are unmet; his estimate of the cost of meeting that unmet need; and the way in which he has determined this figure. [6499/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 193. To ask the Minister for Health his projected estimate of extra level of activity required and funding required to meet demographic pressures in the areas of home help and home care in each of the next 10 years. [6500/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the timetable and milestones for the policy development and public consultation process on home care as set out by the Minister of State in her contribution on Second Stage of the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2016; and the target date or dates for the introduction of new legislation. [6502/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 195. To ask the Minister for Health the total net cost to the State of the fair deal scheme in each of the past five years. [6503/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the State of nursing home care in each of the past five years. [6505/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if details of all hospital consultants outpatient waiting lists will be made publicly available on the grounds of transparency and to ensure the public have a choice in respect to the shortest waiting lists. [6581/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent article (details supplied); the rationale behind the 30% clause within the drug pricing agreement; the way this clause was negotiated; his views on concerns raised by the healthcare enterprise alliance in June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6595/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to encourage prescription of generic and biosimilars when there are equivalent drugs on the market at less than 30% lower cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (9 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 276. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a serious loophole in the operation of the ECCE scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6606/17]

Media Ownership Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I too wish the Minister well in his recovery. As my colleague, Deputy Catherine Murphy, has said, the issue of concern about media ownership is nothing new. The concentration of ownership of the media in Ireland has been a constant point of concern. The NUJ has been raising this issue over a period of approximately 40 years and it has been a feature of the political agenda since the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the details of waiting lists for orthopaedic surgery in each hospital group area for outpatient appointments, inpatient procedures and other lists, that have been waiting for six months, 12 months, one year, two years and more than two years, by specialty and hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the population of each community health care organisation with a breakdown by age categories (details supplied). [6275/17]

Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: On behalf of the Social Democrats, I am happy to support the Bill before us. I hope it will be carried to allow it go forward to Committee Stage because this is an area that has been neglected by the present and the last Governments. It is hard to see any circumstances in which it is defensible that a profitable company that has entered into a contractual arrangement with its employees to...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 53:In page 30, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following “Non-consent to sexual activity 44.An individual is to be taken not to have consented to sexual activity where-(a) the defendant intentionally deceived the complainant as to the nature or purpose of sexual activity, (b) the defendant intentionally induced the complainant to consent to sexual...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 27:In page 23, line 12, to delete “under the age of 18 years”. This section provides for persons under the age of 18 to give evidence from behind a screen and in a very difficult case and traumatic circumstances for a young person, it is important that he or she be given the opportunity to do that and not have to face the perpetrator of the crime. The Rape...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: It is unfortunate that the Tánaiste is not availing of the opportunity to extend this arrangement to all persons. In sexual offences cases the issues are very sensitive. It is very difficult for people to come forward and we know that people are slow to come forward so that when they do, they should be afforded every protection. I urge the Tánaiste to rethink her decision.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: My amendment No. 50 would ensure that complainants have access to legal advice on the issue of disclosure of counselling notes and records before signing a waiver of their right to non-disclosure. The traumatic circumstances of being involved in a sexual offences case make it very difficult to present in court. If in the context of the case a request is made to make counselling records...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Measures (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 89. To ask the Taoiseach the Acts or sections or other provisions of Acts, coming wholly or partly under the auspices of his Department, or for the commencement of which his Department is wholly or partly responsible, which are not in force and which require the future making of a commencement order; if, in each case, it is intended to make such an order; if so, when; and the reason for the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (7 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that availed of unpaid parental leave in each of the past 10 years. [5733/17]