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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Nursing Staff Remuneration (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasoning behind his Department’s decision not to honour the December 2015 agreement reached between the Department of Health, the HSE and the nursing unions; his views on the fact that this has created a significant anomaly whereby 2016 graduates are earning more than those who graduated in the previous five years; and his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise investment in community and home-based care for persons suffering with Alzheimer's disease in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27875/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 207. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise investment in community and home-based care for persons suffering with Alzheimer's disease in the context of his Department's discussions on budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27876/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the cost in 2017 and in a full year of reducing the prescription levy by 25%, 50% and 75% and of eliminating it altogether. [28015/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to reach an agreement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the recognition of the 36-week incremental credit for all nursing graduates, in line with the December 2015 agreement made with the nursing unions by his Department and the HSE; his views on whether this has created a significant anomaly where 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme Data (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 259. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount allocated in 2016 for home energy grants; and the number of households projected to be covered by these grants in 2016. [28017/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme Data (29 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 259. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount allocated in 2016 for home energy grants; and the number of households projected to be covered by these grants in 2016. [28017/16]

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome Professor Allyson Pollock to this morning's meeting and thank her for making herself available to talk to the committee remotely and to share her experience of the National Health Service, NHS, with members. I believe the professor is aware of the task the committee has undertaken and we look forward to speaking to her this morning and learning from her experience. I invite the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Very well.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I ask Professor Pollock to pause for a moment because the sound quality is not great. I have been asked by staff to remind those present to turn off their mobile phones, or turn them onto airplane mode, because they are interfering with the sound system. I apologise for interrupting.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, please.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Professor Pollock for her presentation. I hope she can hear me all right.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We will struggle on and see how we manage. I would like to raise a couple of points before I bring in members. Professor Pollock has stressed that legislation is necessary to put a duty on the Minister for Health of the day to provide universal health care. I suppose the challenge for us is to work out how we get from where we are now - with a disjointed two-tier hospital-centric system -...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I will try again. My second question relates to how we can provide for a legal entitlement to services. I noted Professor Pollock's recommendation that we should not do this on an incremental basis. In light of the ground we need to make up here in Ireland, does Professor Pollock think we should seek to provide legal access to those services at community and primary care level before...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to get some clarification in that regard. If a duty to provide services is being placed on the Minister, I presume there is a need for the legislation to be quite specific about the services to which citizens are entitled.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I wonder how that is actually quantified. What was NHS experience in this regard in 1948?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: All right. I will call the members in groups of three. I ask Professor Pollock to bank the questions before responding to them together.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I will try to repeat that, if you can hear me all right. Deputy Madigan is asking about particular initiatives that the NHS may be involved in relating to health promotion and prevention of disease.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Universal Health Care and the NHS: Discussion (28 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: If you could address those questions, we would appreciate it, please.