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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: No, most definitely not.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: You referred earlier to the many perverse incentives within the funding model of the health service at present. How does one deal with an issue where it makes absolute sense from a patient's and a financial point of view to move a service out? A key decision must be taken by the hospital whereby it says it is prepared to give somebody X amount of money to do something in the community....

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: That is a lot of extra work for the GP.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but there is a huge amount of additional work for the general practitioner, GP.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: There is a hugely increased workload and this must be recognised within the new contract.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: The other aspect about which I am interested is the role of the Health Service Executive, HSE, in this regard. While it is fine to state activity will be switched to the community, unless the other allied health processionals - apart from GPs and practice nurses - are available and unless the primary care teams are adequately staffed, the care cannot happen in that setting. In working with...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: At an early stage in our work, we were advised that we should recommend the establishment of a project management office to have in place a unit charged with responsibility for the implementation of whatever recommendations emerge from this committee. Such an overarching body with a focus on bringing about change is lacking at present.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: We seek the figures in respect of the ratios.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes, that issue is coming up repeatedly.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: That is a strong point we all will take on board. I also note the college is appearing before the committee shortly. On that point, I will bring this highly successful session, in which members learned a great deal, to a conclusion. The witnesses invited the committee down to visit to see at first hand and we might consider so doing. It certainly is highly impressive and members would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her statement of 22 September 2015 on the migration crisis following an emergency meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, the steps taken by her Department to ensure that, as per her statement, special priority will be given to the plight of unaccompanied minors in the provision of supports and services; the status of this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in each of the Garda stations on Dublin's northside at 1 September 2016, 1 March 2016 and 1 September 2015. [26203/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Costs (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners did not include the various provisions of section 110 in the published list of tax expenditures published on their website when the section clearly provides various extraordinary and unusual forms of relief (details supplied); if he will now provide the tax cost of the tax expenditures granted under section 110; and if,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has yet made a decision to amend section 54BX(3)(b) of the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland Act 2004 in order that customers who were missold financial products, such as endowment mortgages, are in a position to pursue claims against the sellers of such products within a reasonable period of identifying this misselling; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Targets (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 346. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected fiscal space on which he is basing budget 2017. [26336/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 347. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of each of the working streams in respect of addressing the cost of insurance. [26339/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 348. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of indexing the entry point to the 49.5% marginal rate of tax to wage growth for every 1% increase in wage growth. [26343/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 349. To ask the Minister for Finance counting PRSI, income tax and the universal social charge, the percentage of income earners who pay tax on their income at each of the marginal rate bands with a breakdown for employed persons and the self-employed persons. [26344/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Sep 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale for the inclusion of physical education as a leaving certificate exam subject. [26153/16]