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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (21 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 621. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the overall numbers of people aged 59 to 69 who are eligible for participation in the BowelScreen programme and who, as of the end of April 2024, have not been issued with a FIT test in the last two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22836/24]

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The previous Chair told us that because we were running behind schedule, there would be a little flexibility with the time.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There is a dire shortage of dentists and we were told the Minister's response was to put work out to the private sector. That is okay for a short-term stopgap measure. It does not work in the longer term. Will the Minister please try to concentrate on public employees in the public health service? In budget 2022, 21 neurological nursing posts were approved and 13 of those still have...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I have a response to a parliamentary question that tells me the recruitment embargo is preventing them being filled. I got it last week.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, I will give the reply to the Minister. This is a no-brainer. There are 860,000 people with neurological conditions.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: They need adequate community services. They deserve them, but it is also having a huge impact on the health service, with beds being taken up over a long period and people not being able to rehabilitate, get back to work and so on. These are the priority areas. I hope the Minister will give them attention.

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on Sláintecare. I do not know why it was not entitled Sláintecare and I do not know why the Sinn Féin health spokesperson is trying to rebrand Sláintecare. Its strength is that it is an all-party policy. That is what gives it real effect. I think we should stick with that and be at one with regard to what we are trying to...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will honour his commitment to legislate to ensure women going through a cancer diagnosis or other serious illness during maternity leave can defer that leave while they recover; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22063/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for their presentations. Why is nobody here from the clinical programme? Were apologies received from those representatives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Did the Cathaoirleach receive a letter from them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is quite unsatisfactory, if that arrangement had been made. The other thing, of course, is that we will have to have the HSE and the CEO back before the committee because very clear commitments were given to us this time last year. We took those commitments in good faith and they are not happening now. It is really disappointing. Apart from the rights of people with neurological...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Healthcare Strategies: Discussion (15 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Was that the go-ahead from the HSE, from HR?

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: 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.