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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: There is more flexibility, I suppose, in a bigger, commercial company.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: All right. Ms Loughran mentioned the fact the HSE does not provide weekend or out-of-hours services. That is an incredible situation. At least that has been recognised with respect to hospital consultants, for example, and practically everybody else within the health service works 24-7 and is rostered in that way. The HSE not providing out-of-hours services opens the door for private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Yes. My time is nearly up. I have two points. The first is on what was said about basic tasks like cleaning and so on that are no longer carried out or funded. Again, has this been raised with the HSE? This is a fundamental point because it is key to many older people being able to stay in their own home if they can keep their home clean, do basic tidying and so on, but that is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am very conscious of big gaps in PHN services, both for older people and for babies and developmental tests. The HSE does not keep data on vacancies, which says a lot about the lack of priority given to that essential service. I have been chasing that for some time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It involves the Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is €85 million.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure of the National Treatment Purchas Fund on patient care in private and public hospitals respectively, in 2022 and 2023. [27321/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on the Cross-Border Directive in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated under the Cross-Border Directive in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27323/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27324/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated under the treatment abroad scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27325/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on contracting out radiotherapy treatment for public patients to private providers in each of the years 2020 to 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27326/24]

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate on affordable electricity. Since the beginning of the cost-of-living crisis, spiralling energy costs have had a devastating impact on many families and workers. Many have been forced to make the stark choice between the various essentials in any family budget and trying to decide which of those essentials they will drop in order to be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total spend on the dental treatment benefit scheme in 2010; the cost to maintain 2010 levels of spending on the scheme between the years 2011 and 2023 respectively, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 340. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the work of the Inter-Departmental Group on the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the timeline the Inter-Departmental Group is working towards in reporting back to Government; the number and dates of meetings already...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with Sjögren's disease who have availed of complex care under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form; and the procedures received. [26773/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures available to patients with Sjögren's disease under the Dental Treatment Services Scheme. [26774/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the public health obesity Bill committed to in the Programme for Government; the timeline for publication of the draft heads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26848/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 467. To ask the Minister for Health if the €5 million funding announced in Budget 2023 to support the HSE public dental services in addressing backlogs in children’s and special care services has been issued; to provide an update on the work undertaken by his Department to reduce the waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27116/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional patients seen on the dental treatment services scheme under the €5 million waiting list reduction scheme 2023; and the estimated total cost of these sessions per CHO area, in tabular form [27117/24]