Results 101-120 of 23,533 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It would be interesting if we could get that information. It has not been provided yet. The plan was for eight post-acute clinics and six long Covid clinics. A number of the clinics are a combination, but I believe the total comes to just 12. We have not reached 14 yet. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Has the programme applied for those resources?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: But the programme has the funding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: "FADA" stands for "Follow-up After Disease Acquisition". Does that mean the HSE recognises long Covid as a disease?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: To some extent, we discussed the criteria for categorising something as a disease, but I take it that the HSE recognises it as a disease, given that the word is in the name of the programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The final question is on children with long Covid. What service provision is made in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Is that for adolescents as opposed to all children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: But no service for children below 13 years of age.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. I thank the witnesses.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----not least in relation to radiation therapists. We are told it is being dealt with, but it seems it is still under consideration and awaiting a Government decision.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There is no justification for this situation. These are people who are essential to saving people's lives.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: These are people who have serious cancers yet the Government has failed to act to tackle this obvious issue that needs to be dealt with.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: There are also issues in relation to delays with visas and when it comes to accreditation with CORU. The solutions are there. What we need now is action from the Government.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Its failure to take that action and to be serious about the cancer energy is absolutely unforgivable at a policy level and certainly for the many families depending on the Government to take action.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It is completely inexplicable.
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Sinn Féin Party for tabling this motion, which the Social Democrats will be very happy to support. It is deeply regrettable that the implementation of the national cancer strategy is clearly no longer a priority for this Government. At last week's meeting of the Joint Committee on Health, the message from the Irish Cancer Society was received loud and clear - the strategy...
- National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: For a long time, our cancer strategies were the success stories of the health service. They were prime examples of what the HSE could achieve if sustained investment was matched by political will. Patient outcomes were greatly improved by the first and second strategies, launched in 1996 and 2006, respectively. According to the Irish Cancer Society, between 1994 and 1998, just 44% of Irish...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Last week, amid all the speculation about whom the Taoiseach would promote, there was a lot of talk about geography and, clearly, that has influenced his decision-making around that. Does the Taoiseach accept that this promotes the practice of parish pump politics, or certainly the perception of it, where a Minister and holding ministerial office are more about delivering goodies for your...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----and that there would be a rationale for those decisions?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I would welcome the Taoiseach's commitment to doing that.