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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 932. To ask the Minister for Health the supports that will be put in place for a person (details supplied) who received a medication (details supplied) under the hardship scheme, but is no longer receiving this medication because of a negative reimbursement decision, and who was advised not to stop this medication mid-course; if the HSE will continue to fund this medication for this patient;...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: A huge thanks goes to the six organisations for being here today. I have three questions. I will put them out and then witnesses can decide how to respond. With regard to family supports, it is about the network services that are there. Obviously, it is hugely important that funding and recognition of the work the witnesses should increase. I am interested to hear the witnesses’...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Does anyone wish to answer the question on where family supports should sit in the system going forward in terms of the allocation and beefing up of funding?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I do not want to eat into anyone else's time, so whatever the Chair wants to do.

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Does the Chair not want to go ahead and I can come back in?

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: First, to clarify something I said earlier that might have come across rather clumsily, I am really conscious addiction does not discriminate. My question earlier was about the circumstances upon which a woman would need to go into a service with her children and I did not mean to get into profiling but just wanted to understand why. The question was addressed with regard to risk. I want...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family Supports: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: That is great to hear because my own sense is that we do not have consistency across the country on that. We see different policies, for example with the band A exception on social grounds and the eligibility for that. There is a bit of chicken and egg here. Because there is so little supply the bar almost has to be set all the higher for the most extreme of cases. It is about the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) can expect a response regarding a general employment permit renewal application. [51075/25]

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I very much welcome today's statements. There is an irony that so much effort has gone into trying to reduce smoking rates in this country over the past two decades. We proudly talk about the smoking ban in commercial places. A lot of money has been spent by the HSE. There is a target for 2025 of a rate of less than 5% of the population smoking, but we know approximately 18% are still...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I second this motion and pay tribute to my colleague, Deputy Wall, and the rest of my colleagues for bringing it forward. Almost 250,000 children in this country live in poverty. That is one in five children living in poverty. That is a damning indictment of a Government of a country, which this year can boast that among EU member states it has the healthiest set of public finances, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I apologise that I am late as I had to speak in the Dáil. I thank the HSE and officials from the Department of Health for being here this morning. I first want to ask about the phasing-out of private activity in public hospitals. There is a deadline of the end of this year to phase out all private activity. Is Mr. Gloster confident that will be met across every hospital? My...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Is the Secretary General confident across all disciplines, including obstetrics, that the commitment to phase out private practice will be met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Is there a cost implication to these hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Yes. What is that figure? Is the Department confident that its budget fully covers the drop in income?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: The national development plan has been published since we last met. Is the Secretary General confident that the elective hospitals are fully budgeted for within the allocation that was announced this year for the Department of Health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I do not mean to cut across Mr. Tierney - I totally appreciate what he is saying - but I want to hear about the commitment to the elective hospitals over the next number of years.