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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It strikes me that those posts should have been exempted because they were already funded and it was because of delays on the part of the HSE HR department that recruitment did not start. It was not a question of a lack of availability of nurse specialists.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It was because of its administrative delays. We need to tackle that very urgently. Looking through the ones that were not filled, there were five specialist nurses for MS, for example. Other positions were not filled in respect of Parkinson's disease, other neuromuscular conditions and Huntington's disease. Two are missing for epilepsy. The number of people impacted by the failure of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: On the neurological teams, it is very disappointing. We were given a commitment that recruitment would take place in early 2024. Now, late 2024 is being said. Is that actually going to happen? Does Ms Rogers know what stage that recruitment is at?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is mid-May 2024. If recruitment has not started - there is a lot riding on this - people need to answer for their failure to deliver on the promises that were given.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is very understandable. Earlier, Ms Rogers spoke about one of the two teams in existence, in which there should be 12 members across different disciplines but there are only five.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Should there be 12 members in each of the teams? It is 12 members across nine CHOs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There should be 108 multidisciplinary therapists in those teams. How many members of those teams are there at the moment? There are two teams in existence. It is hugely understaffed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: To go back to Ms Rogers's point about the implementation strategy and the lack of energy, the implementation framework was established in February 2019. That is five years ago. How does that operate at the moment? Who is responsible for driving it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Who are the two joint chairs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is the NAI involved in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: How often does that body meet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is the head of disability in the Department or the HSE?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses for all they do.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Colm Burke: I fully understand where the Deputy is coming from in relation to any person having difficulty accessing dental care. It is clearly set out in the statement, "The HSE is required to support the provision of emergency care to adult medical card holders who have difficulty accessing a local dentist." Access to dental care, including for adult medical card holders, is a top priority for the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 10.25 p.m. go dtí 9.10 a.m., Dé Céadaoin, an 1 Bealtaine 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 10.25 p.m. until 9.10 a.m. on Wednesday, 15 May 2024.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Dental Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, for being here tonight. I am raising the long waiting list for dentures, specifically for people over 70. I want to go back to a newspaper article in January 2009, which appeared under the subheading: "Dentures will be rationed for medical card holders as part of a wave of Health Service Executive ... cutbacks, dentists representatives...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Colm Burke: I thank Deputy Buckley for raising this matter. I am dealing with this reply on behalf of the Minister. Dentures and denture repairs for medical card holders are provided by contractors through the dental treatment services scheme, DTSS, which provides dental care, free of charge, to medical card holders aged 16 and over. Denture-related items are available from both dentists who hold a...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (14 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the Minister of State. I respect the response outlined. I am well aware that new dentures can be provided every five years, but that is if a patient can access a dentist. That is the issue here. Then there is the medical stuff that goes with it. Oral health is vital. The Minister of State's written statement reads, "The HSE is required to support the provision of emergency...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (14 May 2024)
Niall Collins: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, to which I am replying on behalf of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. It is important to note that the GAA, like all national governing bodies, NGBs, in sport, is an independent, autonomous body. The management of broadcasting and commercial rights is entirely a matter for the association. The GAA, like all NGBs,...