Results 101-120 of 1,029 for long speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 753. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); if the HSE is considering using this medication to treat long Covid in appropriate circumstances; the reason this treatment is not used in long Covid clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26148/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to extend the special scheme of paid leave for healthcare workers suffering from long Covid given that it is due to end on 30 June 2023; the timeline his Department is working towards in concluding its examination of options in that regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25094/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to speak about some of the underlying reasons for the stubbornly long hospital waiting lists and I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this motion forward. Reading through this motion should be a sobering experience, but the reality is we have become so accustomed to unacceptably long waiting lists with unambitious targets and missed deadlines that we are no longer...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...make provision for salaried GPs in order to strengthen our out-of-hours services and to complete and publish the regional health areas implementation plan. These are three major areas that are now long overdue and I am calling for them to be accelerated.

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ..., the Minister for Health and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, in particular must provide the funding required to progress the recommendations of the strategic workforce advisory group. That is long overdue. We are now into a five- or six-month extension of the existing tender and that is simply unacceptable. The strategic group did its work and reported last October but we have...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...provides the extra supports that are needed over time for people in the later years of their lives. The model of care that is being used at the moment is not serving the need. We need to see the long-promised elective hospitals. We need to see them. They make absolute sense. If we have those three elective hospitals, we can make real progress through the waiting lists without those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (11 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The issue I raise concerns home care and staffing in nursing homes. We can only describe this as a crisis that exists in particular in regard to home care, where there are very long waiting lists and it is largely due to very poor terms and conditions for staff working in this important area. The funding of the package to improve conditions seems to be lying with the Department of Public...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (10 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...that we take a risk-based approach but we do not know the level of risk across different professions. That is why we need the Minister to prepare a report in this regard. This issue has been dragging on for a long time so we need to see movement on it. On Committee Stage, I had an amendment that the Minister would bring forward a report - to go to the Committee on Health - on how he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 284. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make orally inhaled levodopa (details supplied) available under the long-term illness scheme to treat Parkinson’s symptoms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21038/23]

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I concur with the point made by Deputy Durkan. It is a poor attempt to deal with something that should have dealt with long ago. This raises very big questions about CORU and about the legislation. I do not think the response is adequate.

Select Committee on Health: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is the long one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...hard work that is going on within the Department and the start of the progress that is being made to turn things around in respect of waiting lists. That is very welcome. Obviously, there is a long way to go. I wish to talk about infrastructure and beds in particular. I have to express some concern that there seems to be backtracking in the proposal for three elective hospitals....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That must be a factor with the long wait times. Does the Minister accept that and why can it not be then corrected?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been treated in long-Covid and post-acute clinics since they were established, by clinic, in tabular form. [18517/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a waiting list for long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by clinic and wait time, in tabular form. [18518/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid and post-acute clinics, by role, in tabular form; the number of vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18519/23]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. I am going to leave it at that. I just want to make one final point, which is that the terms of reference did not provide for any attempt to establish accountability and as long as that looseness exists, we will have people going off doing solo runs. I want to pursue that in relation to the accountability board that the Government is supposed to have in place but I will leave it for...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: .... A person is admitted only if it is essential that he or she receives inpatient treatment. The idea of charging patients for that is outrageous. One would have to ask why it has been going on for so long. I welcome the fact that it is now being removed. This important issue arose when the Sláintecare plan was being drafted, however, and a number of measures were proposed, with...

Finance Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Mar 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...required to have a lasting impact. That is now plain to see. While temporary supports were welcome, they alone could not provide sustainable relief to the countless households that can no longer afford necessities such as food, fuel, energy and rent. Let us take disability supports as an example. The Government's budget only provided for a €12 weekly rise in core welfare...