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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...carers get no respite at all. Only one in four family carers get the carer's allowance. Some 50% of family carers have no choice but to pay privately for therapies, while the other 50% go on long waiting lists. Will the Taoiseach make time available this week for us to have a debate on how the enormous needs of carers can be met within a reasonable timescale?

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...have been living through a very difficult period when there was such uncertainty surrounding their key relationships. Today is a very positive day in that regard. This issue has been around for a long time. It is 24 years since the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction was established and 19 years since its report was published. My preference would have been for us to deal...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...I have made that there is now a splitting of motherhood or the concept of motherhood? For other purposes, it was assumed that the birth mother was the genetic and gestational mother. That is no longer the case in a situation of surrogacy. There is a distinction between the genetic mother and the gestational mother. The constitutional provision to which the Minister referred no longer...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...the other safeguards can be disregarded. That is not the position. All those safeguards should remain in place but the primary consideration should be the best interests of the child. That is a long-established principle, recognised as one we should adhere to. The Minister is talking about a worst-case scenario where all the other safeguards are dispensed with and this is the only...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...approach on this. I endorse the point made by Deputy Cullinane. Speed is fine if people are in a hurry to get something but speed in addressing legislation, and especially legislation as long and very complex as this Bill, very often results in our having to revisit the issue unless adequate time is given for consideration of the provisions. Therefore, I think it was right that we took...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Good morning. Mr. Devane is very welcome. I will start with questions about his term of office. How long is it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ..., and Local Government if he will respond to the contents of a news article (details supplied) regarding Dublin City Council tenants having to live with extensive mould and damp in their homes for long periods of time; the steps his Department is taking to ensure that local councils can better address these issues for their tenants; if he has engaged with Dublin City Council in recent...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to raise the issue of the long-awaited of the new national children's hospital, which cannot open soon enough. The understanding all along has been that there will be 380 beds in the facility. This week, Children's Health Ireland, CHI, released an update video about the hospital that in which reference was made to 300 beds. Can the Minister clarify if that was an error on the part...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...debate the Minister claimed that his Department and the Dental Council were in discussions. They hey were not. It transpired that only very recently has any contact been made in respect of this matter. How much longer can the Minister stand over a situation where a dentist can walk out of dental school and never be asked, during the course of an entire career, to demonstrate how he or...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...capacity of public dental services for children and special care patients; — commit to providing the required funding in Budget 2025 to put the medical card scheme on a sustainable footing; — immediately begin engagement with the sector to reform the DTSS; — commit to publishing the heads of the long-promised Dentists Bill by September 2024 to ensure patient safety,...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There is a dire shortage of dentists and we were told the Minister's response was to put work out to the private sector. That is okay for a short-term stopgap measure. It does not work in the longer term. Will the Minister please try to concentrate on public employees in the public health service? In budget 2022, 21 neurological nursing posts were approved and 13 of those still have...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: They need adequate community services. They deserve them, but it is also having a huge impact on the health service, with beds being taken up over a long period and people not being able to rehabilitate, get back to work and so on. These are the priority areas. I hope the Minister will give them attention.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: .... The recommendation for 100 comes from the model of care, is that right? Yes. Twenty-one were recommended and funded in budget 2022. We are now in the middle of 2024. Those posts were funded long before the recruitment embargo. How did they get caught up in the recruitment embargo? Why were the posts not filled? Was there a particular reason? Will the witnesses talk about that?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am glad to hear that because we have been waiting for a very long time. While home care hours and funding have been increased since 2020, waiting lists remain stubbornly high. In February, there were over 5,500 people approved for a home care package but no carer was available. These staffing challenges have only been made worse by the regressive HSE recruitment freeze. That freeze...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this long-awaited Bill to progress recommendations 14.4 and 14.6 of the Covid-19 nursing homes expert panel, which the Social Democrats will support. However, it is deeply regrettable that it has taken this long for the Minister to produce the necessary Bill. While these reforms are welcome, the Bill will not deliver fully on the regulatory reform recommendations from the expert...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: .... That goes up to nearly 5,000 when Kerry is included. I do not think that the moratorium is any excuse because those waiting lists predate it. What is happening in the Cork area? Why are there long waiting lists? Are there particular problems relating to Cork? Have there been a lot of vacancies or what is the situation in Cork? That more than 4,000 children are waiting for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...-bed unit, which is really a 71-bed unit, will come onstream next year. Another 96-bed unit is to be delivered in 2028 and that is if there are no delays. People in the mid-west cannot wait that long, and they should not have to. They do not have to. A fully operational 53-bed hospital in Limerick city, the landmark Barrington's hospital, has just come on the market with a guide price...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...and election time. I see little vision for the future in the Government's energy policy or for that matter from anywhere else. Where are the solutions to what looks like at least a medium if not a long-term problem? This motion unfortunately contains no measures to reduce our reliance on oil or the number of cars on our roads. It certainly does nothing to address our exposure to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 662. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the special scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long-Covid, following the three-month extension announced on 16 April 2024; if he will replace the temporary scheme with a long-term occupation illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18929/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 683. To ask the Minister for Health if he will add endometriosis to the long-term illness scheme; if this is being considered as part of the development of the National Endometriosis Framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19030/24]