Results 321-340 of 23,441 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (13 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 598. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a media report (details supplied) on a recommendation by the HSE's national women and infants health programme that white flour should be fortified with folic acid; if he is considering initiating this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6535/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 599. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details in relation to the dedicated paediatric spinal surgery unit that he asked Children's Health Ireland to establish; the indicative timeline for operationalising this unit; his plans regarding orthopaedic waiting lists for children following his instruction to the HSE to appoint a full-time project lead to work on this issue; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (13 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 600. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for completion and publication of the independent review into spinal surgeries at Temple Street Children's Hospital, following the identification of 17 additional cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6537/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (13 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 601. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working towards in drafting and publishing the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023, listed for priority drafting in the Spring Government Legislative Programme; if it is his intention to begin second stage before the summer 2024 recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6550/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Vehicle Registration Tax (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 459 of 21 April 2021 and 313 of 30 November 2023, the current steps being taken to address the proliferation of illegal vehicle registration plates on motor cars; whether sufficient legislation is in place for gardaí to apply a fixed charge penalty notice for this offence (details supplied);;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 291. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm if a funding application falls under the remit of his Department (details supplied); the steps he is taking to resolve this matter; the engagements he has had with the Department of Health and the HSE in respect of this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 302. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details in relation to the Budget 2024 allocation to the transgender model of care; the status of plans to develop an updated model of care and appoint a clinical lead for transgender services; the timeline he is working towards; to confirm if the new model will adhere to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports of transgender patients resorting to self-medicating and self-administrating practices, as a result of inadequate trans healthcare services (details supplied); the steps he is taking to address issues with the National Gender Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5847/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 304. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for an instruction to GPs from the National Gender Service (details supplied); the evidence base for this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 305. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Gender Service continues to take the position that transgenderism is a mental health disorder, despite the Word Health Organisation's guidelines which state that it is not (details supplied); the evidence base for this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5849/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (8 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 337. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to correspondence (details supplied); if this funding application falls under the remit of his Department or the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; the engagements he has had with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the HSE in respect of this issue; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (7 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to support and promote the provision of home economics teacher training courses in the greater Dublin area; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5264/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on earlier proposals for the provision of new school buildings at a site in Dublin 9 (details supplied); the stage at which these developments are; the likely timescale for the development of each building; the proposals to build two new multidenominational second-level schools at the site; the proposals to move a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (7 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has received any reports or briefings from Uisce Éireann with regard to the timeframe for water connections to new housing developments and one-off houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5263/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (1 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the interests of transparency, he will re-examine the statutory instrument that came into effect on 23 June 2023 relating to the Irish register of beneficial ownership of companies, which has effectively denied the public, including business journalists, access to public interest information; if he will consider amending this SI in line with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a report (details supplied) into global wealth inequality, which included findings on Ireland; if he will consider a third rate of income tax, given the scale of wealth inequality in Ireland; the steps he is taking to address the unequal distribution of wealth in this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (1 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in respect of the State’s remaining 40.8% stake in a bank (details supplied); if he intends to recover the State’s full €20.8 billion investment in the bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4845/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE website no longer has a facility for the public to record Covid-19 infections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (30 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 518. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to reduce waiting lists for dental services, both public and private; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3859/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (30 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 519. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to prevent dentists from withdrawing from the dental treatment services scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3860/24]