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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I have three questions. You said that nurses want to take on new responsibilities and duties. What is stopping that? What is your view on the present arrangements, particularly in light of the fact that nurses will be leading on chronic disease management? Currently, that is proposed to be done by practice nurses. What is your view on practice nurses being employed by GPs? Is that the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I take it that principle is not being recognised by the HSE management.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: If we had a big bang in terms of a move to a totally public system, that would be a different matter, but in terms of a transition to a new type of system, there are GPs who want to continue in private practice, single-handed or group practice, and employ practice nurses. Would Mr. Mathews envisage their being able to continue to do so in a transitionary phase?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: What is Mr. Mathews's view on a scholarship scheme?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Those figures with purchasing power would be the relevant ones, in particular in relation to housing. Whatever about the Deputy's niece living in Galway, Dublin is prohibitive because of the cost of housing. One must factor in the cost of living with salaries.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We need starting salaries but also the scale in terms of how quickly or otherwise a person progresses.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The Medical Council surveyed doctors on the reasons and Deputy Harty referred to that earlier. It was very interesting for us to hear the results of that survey. I do not know if the INMO has surveyed its members in that regard, but we would be very interested to see any information it has on the underlying causes.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Representatives of Health Sector Workforce (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their very significant contribution to the work of the committee. We appreciate their time.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 16 September 2016, the steps she will take to offer asylum to the 200 unaccompanied children who are resident in the so-called jungle migrant camp in Calais, which is scheduled to be dismantled; the further steps she can take to offer asylum to other residents of the camp; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Data (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of persons, with a breakdown by county and within Dublin by postal district, availing of the deferral option under Part 12 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (as amended). [32274/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address the serious anomaly for lone parents in receipt of maintenance payments and also rent supplement in that they receive no benefit from maintenance payments due to the means test rules operating for rent supplement; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases a parent in these circumstances may suffer a net loss...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement and in receipt of one parent family payment and jobseeker transition payment respectively. [32273/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Policy (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage with his French counterpart in order to request that work to dismantle the so-called jungle migrant camp in Calais be halted until a comprehensive plan for the resettlement of the residents of the camp is finalised. [32261/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Allowances (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the operation of the PCW 1% allowance within the Civil Service; the purpose of this allowance; the basis on which it is awarded; and the person or persons with responsibility to award this allowance. [32330/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Management (26 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of the Civil Service grievance procedure Circular 11/2001, if he will clarify if there is any requirement that a staff member must be a member of a trade union in order to pursue such a procedure; the options open to a complainant where the employer does not comply with Circular 11/2001; and the person or body which...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of each of the expenditure savings that have been earmarked for his Department in 2017; the value of the saving in each case; the basis on which the value was estimated; and the way it differs from the 2016 mid-year expenditure report. [31542/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Management (25 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grievance procedure available to civil servants; if all staff have a right to have grievance addressed separately and not as a part of any pay or allowance related proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32139/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (25 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 398. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of consultants currently working at a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the numbers on the outpatient waiting list for each consultant; the average waiting time for surgery for each consultant from a general and priority list respectively; the steps that he is taking to improve access to orthopaedic surgeons and to reduce...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 399. To ask the Minister for Health the details of each of the expenditure savings that have been earmarked for his department in 2017; the value of the saving in each case; the basis on which the value was estimated; and the way it differs from the 2016 mid-year expenditure report. [31543/16]