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Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: He should be incentivising and using a carrot and stick approach. The vacant site levy should have been brought forward. The Minister should reform the fair deal scheme because it currently disincentivises people who go into nursing homes from letting their properties. This could be dealt with at the stroke of a pen. The Minister should be reintroducing the financial contribution...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the budget. What has been set out before us is a raft of piecemeal measures. There is no doubt they are lacking any kind of coherent vision for the direction of our country. The budget lacks ambition and it spreads resources so thinly that it does not make any kind of significant impact on any one area. The Government had choices in this...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The measures in regard to the USC do nothing whatsoever for people on the lowest incomes. Some 750,000 people will get no benefit from the USC measures. In regard to the people who do benefit, a 0.5% cut is something that most people will not notice. At a cost of €335 million, the Government could have done something significant in one of the main areas if it had the vision....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (11 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 393. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns raised by organisations (details supplied) regarding CORU registration for a profession that will allow persons without a bachelors or masters degree in the profession to register as a practitioner; his views on the fact that the registration process as it stands leaves Ireland out of step with other...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Housing Issues (11 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been brought to an issue (details supplied); the steps her Department has taken to ensure that this issue does not negatively impact job creation in the greater Dublin area; the specific measures that her Department has taken in conjunction with the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (6 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding that has been promised by his Department for the past 16 years (details supplied) is made available to an educational institution in order to complete a vital piece of infrastructural development. [29062/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 29 September 2016, if he will provide the data on which the claim on sustainability regarding social mix is based. [29073/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (6 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 205. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 27 September 2016, notwithstanding the genuine reasons for the necessity for a lead in period for Parts 2 and 3 of the Act, his views on whether the delay and failure to publish a timeframe for commencement is having a negative impact on couples who are currently expecting children; the preparatory work being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (6 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 228. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a proposal to establish a pilot programme to provide day care and therapeutic supports to people with acquired brain injuries (details supplied) and if he will consider allocating funding for this proposal in the 2017 service plan. [29168/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I commend and fully support the Sinn Féin motion. There is no doubt there is a clear need to provide dedicated mental health teams on a 24-7 basis in all hospital areas. However, I wish to make one initial point. I am very conscious of the devastating trauma suicide causes for families who have been affected directly. My own certainly was, and I know many families of Members of this...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Good morning everyone. I wish to remind everyone in the room to turn off their mobile phones or switch them to airplane mode as they interfere with the sound recording equipment. I welcome everyone, particularly viewers who are watching the live streaming of our meeting this morning. In establishing this committee, the Dáil was giving recognition to the fact that there are considerable...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you for the presentation. What are Dr. Burke's views on how this committee might determine the basket of care and what is the best practice internationally?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I will invite members to speak in groups of three and bank the questions.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: What is the new structure?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Is it a national structure?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: And the hospital groups.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I had not seen it.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: That private health insurance only contributes 9% to the health spend is remarkable. From memory, I think 77% is funded through the tax system so it seems that represents more than three quarters of the health spend. That should be the starting point on which we build.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: This was raised with us initially by the ESRI when it presented a pie chart showing the different elements of health spending.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Inequality in Access to Health Care: Discussion (5 Oct 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, to the total health spend.