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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 6. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to strengthen the inspection and regulatory regime in HIQA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34932/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: We are all reeling from the revelations about Beneavin nursing home and the nursing home in Portlaoise in recent weeks. It is clear that HIQA has given a wide berth to nursing homes when it comes to its inspection regime, which is in sharp contrast, I might argue, to how other authorities regulate, such as the Food Safety Authority and the Health and Safety Authority. I wish to hear from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister. There are four clear systemic issues within HIQA at the moment, notwithstanding that it is a much-trusted institution in the public's mind. That confidence has been dented, however. Clear legislative change and clarity are needed in four areas. The first issue is in regard to the licensing. I welcome what the Minister is saying about the licensing of corporate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Regulatory Bodies (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is an added piece with regard to leadership. In the responses at the health committee last week, in the instance of Beneavin nursing home, there is 100% non-compliance with fire safety systems in that building. We were told that it does not relate to the structure, but rather only to the fire systems. If the fires systems are not fully operational, there is an immediate fire risk....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 4. To ask the Minister for Health if she will act to protect front-line healthcare workers impacted by long Covid and who are in receipt of the special scheme of paid leave; if she plans to extend this scheme or recognise long Covid as an occupational illness to quality for occupational injury benefit payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34984/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister knows, the scheme for special leave for those who contracted long Covid is due to expire on in four days on 30 June. A total of 166 section 38 organisations and HSE employees are currently in receipt of this payment. To be frank, the response to date has been downright disrespectful and degrading to those who gave so much and risked so much at a time of such uncertainty and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: As the Minister knows, people's lives have been turned upside down by long Covid. This is not any ordinary type of illness. This was contracted in the workplace, yet there has been a persistent refusal by this State, in sharp contrast to the vast majority of EU member states, to recognise Covid as an occupational illness. The refusal to extend this scheme or to put in place a long-term...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: With respect, the Government is splitting hairs in distinguishing between Covid-19 and long Covid. Clearly, long Covid resulted from Covid-19. The reality is that the request has been for a framework to be put in place to support these specific workers. We are only talking about health workers. We are not talking about gardaí or the many other front-line workers who went out to work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 53. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department is considering amending the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023 to ensure that this includes the advertising of all nicotine products, including nicotine pouches; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the specific actions her Department is taking to ensure that GP practices are being set up in disadvantaged areas and/or areas with few or no GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34933/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to implement the report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants, particularly recommendations five, six, and seven; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34929/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 121. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether the CAMHS unit based in the new children’s hospital will be fully staffed and operational on day one of operations, the actions undertaken by the HSE to ensure that this unit is fully staffed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the medical card policy towards funding to replace a prosthetic limb in adults in circumstances including natural lifespan of the prosthetic of circa five years, damage beyond repair to the prosthetic and need for different prosthetic arising from surgery. [35127/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 347. To ask the Minister for Health the medical card policy towards funding to replace a prosthetic limb in children in circumstances including damage beyond repair to the prosthetic and need for different prosthetic arising from surgery. [35128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: 348. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the assisted transport options in place for individuals attending a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35129/25]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Murnane O'Connor, and all the officials from the Department of Health. My first question relates to section 39 organisations, as well as organisations funded under sections 10, 40 and 56. There was a pay deal concluded approximately 15 weeks ago with two pay increases due to be backdated....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Marie Sherlock: That would be great.