Results 321-340 of 13,096 for speaker:Róisín Shortall in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 135. To ask the Minister for Health if the 6,000 additional staff across acute and social care services announced in Budget 2023 have been recruited; to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, by discipline and recruitment status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41733/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure special education teachers for a DEIS school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41038/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (21 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 244. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the little baby bundle pilot initiative; if an estimated timeframe will be provided for the completion of the pilot scheme; if his Department is committed to a wider roll-out of the little baby bundle scheme after it takes into account the feedback of parents participating in the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will take steps to approve the long-awaited pension increase for An Post pensioners (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39700/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 335. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that schools-based gambling education and awareness remains free from the influence of the gambling industry; if she intends to introduce gambling education and awareness in the post-primary curriculum at both junior and senior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the role of Chief Executive of Dublin City Council was not advertised and appointed ahead of the previous Chief Executive vacating the post, thereby removing the necessity to appoint an acting Chief Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40178/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the status of new legislation to replace the Dentists Act 1985; the timeline he is working towards; the reason for the delay in progressing this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40065/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 954. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 403 and 404 of 8 February 2023 and No. 481 of 3 May 2023, if he is aware of the position of the HSE's Heads of Psychology Services Ireland, HPSI, and the Psychological Society of Ireland, PSI, on the use of certain titles, given that these titles are not recognised as being currently in use by the HSE's national HR...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 967. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) are not consistently emergency taxed each time they change hospitals; to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the engagements he has had with the HSE and the Minister for Finance on this matter; when he expects this unsustainable problem for NCHDs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 968. To ask the Minister for Health the date at which he expects the National Taskforce on NCHD Workforce to publish its report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 970. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of pregabalin-related deaths between 2012 and 2020, as reported by the Health Research Board (details supplied); the actions he intends to take to address the substantial rise in pregabalin-related deaths; if he intends to curtail the source of pregabalin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 971. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to the announcement of additional annual funding of €3.5 million for drugs and inclusion health services, he will provide further details on how this additional funding is to be allocated if this money is to be used to remediate deficits in local and regional drug and alcohol task force projects' funding; if it will apply to all DATF...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 972. To ask the Minister for Health his views on partnerships between gambling industry-funded bodies and addiction services (details supplied); his views on whether it is appropriate for agencies in receipt of State funding to be engaged in such partnerships; the steps he is taking to ensure gambling addiction treatment is free from the influence of the gambling industry; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gambling Sector (20 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1071. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on partnerships between gambling industry-funded bodies and addiction studies programmes in higher education institutes (details supplied); his views on whether such partnerships are appropriate; the steps he is taking to ensure addiction studies is free from the influence of the gambling industry; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 29 June 2023, in respect of essential emergency works required by a school in Dublin 11 (details supplied) if she will ensure that necessary consequential works are also included in order to ensure safe, hygienic and acceptable conditions are created for the children attending this school and that...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 415. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in relation to RTÉ pensioners, many of whom are surviving on low to middle incomes, she intends to sanction RTÉ to release funds so that the pensions' trustees can pay out the pension increase, which has been frozen for a number of years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35460/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 638. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average wait time for an assessment of need for children who have been added to the assessment of need waiting list, by children’s disability network team; the average wait time for an assessment of need for children who have not been added to the assessment of need waiting list but were referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address medicine shortages, with over 300 medicines in short supply, according to Health Products Regulatory Authority data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35379/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 529 of 20 June 2023, his views on the fact that when healthcare professionals refers a child to a children's disability network team, this does not automatically result in the child being added to the assessment of need waiting list, thus denying that child a legal right to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Jul 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the median income figure being used in relation to the expansion of GP visit card income limits; the reason the thresholds provided in his statement on 4 July 2023 are significantly less than the median income (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34574/23]