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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1744. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to adding motor neurone disease (MND) and Kennedy's disease, which is rare but very similar to MND, to the list of medical conditions covered by the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1642/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1745. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the National Service Plan 2024; if the HSE has submitted the NSP to him for approval; the timeline he is working towards in approving the NSP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1643/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to respond to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s Fiscal Assessment Report, published recently; his views on their assessment of the health allocation for 2024 (details supplied); if he accepts the views of the Acting Chair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56155/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 378. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been brought to research into energy hardship experienced by cancer patients with life-limiting diagnoses (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56154/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 506. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to research into energy hardship experienced by cancer patients with life-limiting diagnoses (details supplied); the steps he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (14 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 507. To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform regarding the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s Fiscal Assessment Report and their analysis of the Health allocation for 2024 (details supplied); his views on their analysis of the health allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56156/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet representatives of an organisation (details supplied) to discuss serious funding challenges and its role in the evolving further education and training ecosystem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55813/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is hard to believe that conditions that have such a massive impact on people's lives, on the health service and on our economy are so neglected. It is difficult to figure out why that is the case. Do the witnesses have views on that? There obviously is an impact for the individual in terms of death rates and disability. As this then takes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Did something initiate the previous ten-year strategy, which our guests have said was very good? How did that come about and how is it that we do not have that continuing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The then Minister had a particular interest in it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Have both organisations met the current Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but have they met the Minister on the issue of the review and of the strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is difficult to understand why we are not making progress in this area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is no joined-up thinking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is often said that money talks. With regard to cost-benefit analysis, there has been reference to a cost-benefit. Is there an up-to-date cost-benefit analysis on the burden of stroke and heart disease?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is nothing recent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is there a model of care?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There are no-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, fine. Both organisations stress the importance of prevention. I admitted recently that we as a committee have not spent an awful lot of time on prevention. It is probably because of the fact there is crisis in so many aspects of the health service and we tend to deal with the crisis stuff rather than the longer-term stuff that could make a real difference. We also discussed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Róisín Shortall: On that last point, I remember that last year Croí demonstrated having a cardiac physiologist in and how, with just a laptop, that person could be a gatekeeper for a lot of services or preventative work. Is anything being done about the lack of physiologists? Is anybody taking that up at ministerial level? Maybe it is the Minister, Deputy Harris, who-----