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Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 60: In page 33, line 6, after “that” to insert “he or”.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Last week, we heard from Families for Reform of CAMHS about the predominantly problematic experience of the 850 families it represents. The Taoiseach will also be aware of the review of CAMHS carried out by the Mental Health Commission, which produced a fairly damning report that made 49 recommendations. The overriding recommendation and requirement of its report was for the independent...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of children of Irish citizens that were refused entry in the foreign births register in 2023 as a result of the ABC judgement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2955/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a formal announcement made by her in mid-2023 (details supplied), to outline the health, education, and advocacy supports and services currently available to survivors of institutional abuse after the winding down of the Caranua agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2704/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to matters raised in a correspondence (details supplied) from a teacher regarding the teaching of sraithpictiúir as part of the Leaving Certificate curriculum for Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on plans to provide a community neurorehabilitation team in all nine CHOs; the timeline he is working towards for each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2422/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeline for delivery of each of the six surgical hubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the aftercare provided to people who received the incorrect formulation of a vaccine (details supplied); the information provided to those impacted; if any adverse effects were reported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2387/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or any of the other relevant bodies will issue a formal authoritative request to a representative body to issue a notification to its members regarding the recall of products (details supplied); the reason this has not been done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2515/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: And the city apparently.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 4. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to the recent ERSI report on the changes and challenges facing the Irish long-term residential care sector since Covid-19; his views on the consolidation of nursing home ownership, with 14 operators controlling 40% of all beds, and the increasing monetisation of elder care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2279/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am raising the issue of the recent ESRI report that made fairly damning findings about what is happening in the area of residential care for older people. We have seen the rapid closure of small, community-based nursing homes and a trend towards much bigger and much more commercial nursing homes, which is certainly not in the interests of older people. What is the Minister of State's...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: With all due respect to the Minister of State, I asked for her response and she described the report. She said we have often have had conversations across the floor. That is the problem. All we have is talk from her. There has been no action. Residential care is not the first choice of many older people. What we should be doing, of course, is expanding other options. In May 2020, at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: In 2020, the then Minister for Health also made the point that the current model was not fit for purpose. We had two senior people in the middle of Covid saying we had to move away from the model of big nursing homes. I cannot see that the Minister of State has done anything of substance on that. I point to the fact that she continues to allow a situation where nursing home care is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister of State is kicking the can down the road again.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: We need action on this.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (18 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 299. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans to introduce a statutory right to home care, as committed to in the Programme for Government; the timeline he is working towards in publishing the necessary legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2280/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for the incredible work they are doing. The survey is very useful. It is from the coalface and it provides a very clear analysis of the situation and what needs to be done to rectify it. The Department and the HSE should be indebted to them for coming up with that data. The findings are also absolutely in line with those of the Mental Health...