Results 161-180 of 1,029 for long speaker:Róisín Shortall

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...and living not only in Creeslough but also in Letterkenny, Dunfanaghy and other surrounding areas. Local schools dealing with the grief of students who lost classmates and parents also require long-term and ongoing support. This support must be available and there must be no question of this. It must include intensive mental health services and counselling. There can be no question of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular form; the number of patients on a waiting list for each clinic; and the time that each patient has been waiting. [54806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the long-Covid clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular form; the number of patients on a waiting list for each clinic; and the time that each patient has been waiting. [54807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the business case for a multidisciplinary clinic for long-Covid in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid clinics and post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid, by role, in tabular form; the number of vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53893/22]

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...ahead. There is €500 for recipients of the working family payment, which is all very well, but there is no extension of the fuel allowance to that group. These supports are all very well but will not help people in the medium to long term or provide certainty for those who need long-term supports the most. They will not provide sustainable relief to those who can no longer...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...Bord Pleanála as we speak is seriously damaging trust in the planning system all over again. This shambles will also have major cost implications for the State. You would think that, after the longest running and most expensive public inquiry in Irish history, which I repeat was about planning matters, the Government would have learned some further lessons. However, it appears that...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to start by welcoming this long overdue Bill, which the Central Bank first called for in 2018. It is clear from recent history that the senior executive accountability framework is sorely needed, along with the enhanced Central Bank powers, so that the wrongdoings of the past are not repeated. Why has it taken over four years to progress this Bill? We have the very same Minister for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...if he would consider establishing a Taoiseach's task force. Will he bring proposals to this House next month when statements on O’Connell Street will be taken? We have talked about this for long enough and this is now at a tipping point. Businesses are complaining that they cannot get footfall on O'Connell Street because of the state of the street and the danger that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...that currently, only 413 GPs have a contract for the provision of terminations. We are still at a point where only 11 of the 19 maternity hospitals provide termination services. There is a very long way to go and there is no doubt, particularly in rural areas, that the threat of protest does not encourage people - GPs or hospitals - to provide services. That is why this legislation is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Professor Lyons. She said that there are currently 11 people in hospital. Typically how long does a hospital-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, 11 people have been hospitalised. Typically, how long is a hospital stay?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to return to the interim guidelines from September 2021 on the management of long Covid. Who was responsible for drawing those up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Arising from the events of the last year, a decision was taken to establish six long Covid clinics. What consultants are attached to those clinics? I refer to both the number and the specialty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about the specific long Covid clinics. I am not talking about other services in the hospitals. Dr. Ní Bhriain says each clinic has an infectious diseases expert. What is the situation with cardiologists, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is very hard to understand what has happened with the Mater hospital, which opened the first long Covid clinic and has been operating it since June 2020, has published several articles about Covid and did a very detailed study on long Covid that involved 155 patients. That clinic has built up extraordinary expertise - much more expertise, it could be argued, than any other hospital - and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How much importance does her team attach to neurological complications as a result of long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Mater is not a centre for long Covid any more. The HSE has not selected it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...done internationally. What is the mechanism for learning from that research and adjusting the approach? For example, what country has demonstrated best practice in relation to the treatment of long Covid?