Results 141-160 of 1,019 for long speaker:Róisín Shortall

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...end up finding that their condition has deteriorated significantly. They may have had to give up work, for example, if they have bad arthritis in their hips or knees, meaning they are not mobile any longer. People are often forced into situations where they have to give up work. The family income drops significantly, which has an impact on the entire family. They end up waiting for...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: So there are 66,000 people waiting for the payment for a very long period. Can the Minister give an assurance that all steps will be taken to ensure that the payment is made before Christmas?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...the situation and so on. That is why I am asking when, over a ten-month period, did the authorities go about trying to collect the information. That is important. It seems there was quite a long delay. If the Minister cannot provide that information today, perhaps he will do so in the next few days. The Minister is very good at describing problems, drawing from his experience as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Department of Health (23 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...to see how that would be the case if the new powers were being used fully. The expert group reported in August 2020 and made a lengthy list of substantial recommendations. Why has it taken so long to produce this draft legislation and why is the Department taking a two-stage approach instead of dealing comprehensively with the expert group's recommendations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to continue this point. Is it not the case that there are long delays in delivering the promised beds and that there are no new additional beds provided for in this winter plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE (16 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...HSE deciding that it will recruit staff to cover out-of-hours services, and I would appreciate it if the HSE were to pursue that. I wish to get back to the issue of workforce planning. We had long discussions on this, as the witnesses will know, with Mr. Reid a number of weeks ago and we were promised a lot of material. We were told there were workforce plans and so on. There is no...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to recognise long-Covid as an occupational disease or illness following this Government's support of the motion in relation to long-Covid on 9 November 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56712/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...questions about the powers of SIPO and its ability or lack thereof to hold politicians to account. It is not the first time that those questions have been raised. As the Tánaiste knows, the Social Democrats have long called on the Government to give the State's ethics watchdog some badly needed teeth. Most recently, the controversy surrounding Deputy Troy's failure to fully...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...asked when we are likely to see the publication of updated ethics legislation. I remind the Tánaiste that this legislation goes back many years. We have been promised this updated legislation for a long time. There was a draft Bill in 2015, which went into committee in 2017 and ran into the sand. Since then, it has been clear that Fine Gael is simply not interested in having...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this important motion and acknowledge Deputy Naughten's work in this area over some time. He certainly stuck with it for a long time, as indeed have other Members. Unfortunately, the Minister for Health has not responded to this. It seems as though the Government is hell-bent on sidelining long Covid. As such, any opportunity to highlight issues...

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...and living not only in Creeslough but also in Letterkenny, Dunfanaghy and other surrounding areas. Local schools dealing with the grief of students who lost classmates and parents also require long-term and ongoing support. This support must be available and there must be no question of this. It must include intensive mental health services and counselling. There can be no question of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular form; the number of patients on a waiting list for each clinic; and the time that each patient has been waiting. [54806/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1079. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been seen in each of the long-Covid clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid to date in tabular form; the number of patients on a waiting list for each clinic; and the time that each patient has been waiting. [54807/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1080. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the business case for a multidisciplinary clinic for long-Covid in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the existing staffing levels in each of the long-Covid clinics and post-acute clinics established under the interim model of care for long-Covid, by role, in tabular form; the number of vacant posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53893/22]

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...ahead. There is €500 for recipients of the working family payment, which is all very well, but there is no extension of the fuel allowance to that group. These supports are all very well but will not help people in the medium to long term or provide certainty for those who need long-term supports the most. They will not provide sustainable relief to those who can no longer...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...Bord Pleanála as we speak is seriously damaging trust in the planning system all over again. This shambles will also have major cost implications for the State. You would think that, after the longest running and most expensive public inquiry in Irish history, which I repeat was about planning matters, the Government would have learned some further lessons. However, it appears that...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to start by welcoming this long overdue Bill, which the Central Bank first called for in 2018. It is clear from recent history that the senior executive accountability framework is sorely needed, along with the enhanced Central Bank powers, so that the wrongdoings of the past are not repeated. Why has it taken over four years to progress this Bill? We have the very same Minister for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...if he would consider establishing a Taoiseach's task force. Will he bring proposals to this House next month when statements on O’Connell Street will be taken? We have talked about this for long enough and this is now at a tipping point. Businesses are complaining that they cannot get footfall on O'Connell Street because of the state of the street and the danger that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...that currently, only 413 GPs have a contract for the provision of terminations. We are still at a point where only 11 of the 19 maternity hospitals provide termination services. There is a very long way to go and there is no doubt, particularly in rural areas, that the threat of protest does not encourage people - GPs or hospitals - to provide services. That is why this legislation is...