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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: There is an element of parallel models while you are moving to the new one. However, there was clearly momentum with the progress being made. That is now going to be slowed down. Can the Minister stand over this badly needed reform of the health service being slowed down as a result of the allocation from his Department, because that is what all of the senior people in health claim is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Did the Minister used the term "find ways"?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: My question was on the need to continue that reform.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Absolutely but they need to be funded.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his response to a media report (details supplied), the engagements he has had with the Minister for Health and the chief executive officer of the HSE since budget 2024 was announced on 10 October last; his views on whether the health service budget for 2024 is sufficient to meet patient need and progress Sláintecare reforms; and if...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Does the Minister accept that the deficit in this year's health funding was identified in the early months of this year by a number of people in the HSE and the Department? We have seen that those concerns about the risk were very well founded. Does the Minister accept the fact that there was a problem with the allocation made this year and that this will have a clear knock-on effect in 2024?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of changes to the recruitment process for qualified paramedics, the competency assessment process for qualified paramedics has undergone a review, following the problems identified by the Oireachtas health committee in January 2023, in particular the multiple-choice questions exam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46793/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if newly recruited qualified paramedics will undertake the same multiple-choice questions as part of their induction program commencing October 2023, as were previously used in the competency exam by the National Ambulance Service in the recruitment process at candidate selection stage prior to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46794/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 175. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the competency assessment process for qualified paramedics by the National Ambulance Service; his views on whether the process is clear and transparent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 176. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that any competency assessments that newly appointed qualified paramedics to the National Ambulance Service undertake will be appropriately structured, so that each question can be referenced to the PHECC paramedic training standard document; if the questions cannot be referenced to the PHECC paramedic training standard document, if this will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place an appropriate appeals mechanism for qualified paramedics newly appointed to the National Ambulance Service, whereby they can appeal the result of an exam; if so, if those wishing to appeal their result will be permitted to view their exam papers or their incorrect answers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46797/23]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: What is the note on?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I support the amendment. We talked about this issue at length during a few meetings, we put a lot of time into the pre-legislative scrutiny and we had two sessions with gardaí and a number with departmental officials. Many of us struggled with the idea that if somebody was protesting in Cork one week and breached the regulations, and then a few weeks later was protesting in Dublin,...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following: “(6) The Minister shall, within one year of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas, and the relevant committee, evaluating the effectiveness of the system for recording warnings issued by the Garda Síochána pursuant to subsection (1).”. What...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I understand the difficulties in legislating for this area. A lot of premises are involved, particularly in a city. I understand the challenges there. To return to the key point, if there is no way a garda in Dublin can know that Mr. X protested in Cork, how can a prosecution be brought against him when he is protesting for the second time?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is a warning.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I still have a difficulty seeing how any person male or female who is protesting can be prosecuted. They may stop when they are told to stop by a garda. It is necessary that a prior warning be given for their activity to constitute an offence on the second occasion but who knows whether it is the second occasion? That is the point. The Minister has spoken about a review. Could he...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That may well entail the law not being in operation for a two-year period at least. Many of us have doubts about the workability of this legislation. Nobody has been able to answer the question regarding how gardaí know whether this is a first, second or tenth warning. If there is no means of knowing that within An Garda Síochána, this is a serious matter and we need to know...