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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the reason why epilepsy is not listed under the HSE Chronic Disease Management Programme; the process required to have the condition recognised under the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50153/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive pensions section in Manorhamilton is now fully staffed and in a position to process all pension matters for retired HSE workers in a swift and timely manner; if not, if he will outline the steps being taken to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50154/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for sharing their stories with us. We can only start to appreciate the tragedy involved in the loss of a child but when it is a preventable death, it must be absolutely overwhelming. I thank the witnesses for the work they have done. Not only are they dealing with their own grief but the fact that they are campaigning to stop this happening to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What about the original training for healthcare professionals? Is there an element relating to sepsis in the training?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is now a programme there. I am curious to know about the witnesses' engagement with HSE. The fact there is not a single person overseeing this means there is no clear focus. That is certainly something we will take up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: We are very familiar with that problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Who have the witnesses been meeting with there? Is it somebody at a sufficiently senior level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is very senior. To go back to the Stauntons, has the template that was put in place in New York been shared with HSE? Has there been that kind of communication?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise but I will have to leave shortly because I am due to speak in the Chamber. I welcome the witnesses. They will have heard the harrowing stories we heard in the first part of the meeting. We were all taken aback at the shocking numbers of patients developing sepsis and the very high death rate from that. It is especially traumatic for families where a loved one dies in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, we have heard that. The HSE is at the scoping stage, which seems incredible at this stage of people's awareness------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the fact it is happening, but we have to ask why it is happening only now. It seems rather late in the day. One of the other criticisms, certainly in the context of Lil Red's campaign, was that every time representatives meet somebody from the HSE, it is a different person. That seems to indicate a lack of focus within the HSE or insufficient seniority being made available to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What percentage of healthcare workers have done that training?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It will be next year by the time the HSE has that.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (14 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide improved facilities including a sports hall for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49511/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (14 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 599. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 4 July 2023, the date at which the first payment of the travel and subsistence scheme grant will be paid to student nurses and midwives, given that it is due this month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 598. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 24 October 2023, if by year-end he intends to implement any interim measures to address the concerns of GPs following the determination of the Tax Appeals Commission regarding GMS income; if he intends to await the outcome of the Strategic Review of General Practice, which is not due to be completed this year,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Is the Minister for Health coming back or has he left?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry to see that he is gone because this morning, "RTÉ Investigates" revealed that the Dental Council had written to the Government about what it termed the indefensible lack of regulation and legislative reform in respect of dentistry. In September it was revealed that several people practising dentistry in this country are unregistered, including one individual who has been...

Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I do not deny that what the Minister has done in this Bill is welcome, insofar as it goes, but it does not even half do the job. This is primarily about banning the sale of vapes to those aged under 18 years. We all hope that will work, but there are so many other aspects to this. Those aspects have been pointed out by many different organisations and by the health committee. They were...