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Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Exemptions (20 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 202. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reply by the Minister for Finance to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 11 June 2024; his further views on whether the VAT exemption for counsellors and psychotherapists should be implemented ahead of the opening of the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board; if he is pursuing this position with the Department of Finance; and if...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I will probably be done by then. I welcome this debate on the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024, which I am taking in the place of my colleague, Deputy Jennifer Whitmore. I am disappointed the Bill has been drastically pared back, so much so that only seven of the children's committee’s 96 pre-legislative scrutiny recommendations are now relevant to the legislation before us....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to pick up on that point. The most disappointing aspect of this legislation is that it does not provide for the long-promised statutory right to home care. I was just reading the history of that promise yesterday and I saw that in 2017, the current Taoiseach, as Minister for Health, committed to the introduction of a statutory right to home care. That was 2017. In 2020, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Why does the Department not have that breakdown?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: It is not just about the authorisation scheme presumably. Its involves the providers and the categorisation and oversight of providers. Surely whoever is responsible for the oversight of this knows the different sectors that are providing that care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The Department does not have a breakdown.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate it if the Department could bring that along. The 37% is directly employed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Is it not the case that there is no issue with recruitment in the case of staff directly employed by the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about staff directly employed by the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I know it is struggling to get cover for people who need it because of the reliance of private providers but I am not aware of any issue regarding HSE staff. Perhaps Ms Larthwell will get us a note on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Regarding the exclusion of personal assistants from this scheme, I am trying to understand the thinking behind this. Ms Larthwell made a point about in the home or not in the home or in the community. When we talk about home care, it is in an institution or for a person in his or her home but that does not mean it is within his or her own home. It is for people who are living at home as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is a very fine line.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: This may be something the committee takes up in terms of pre-legislative scrutiny. Is there an estimate of the additional resources HIQA will need to carry out this role?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Is this HIQA's figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Would HIQA agree with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What is Professor O'Sullivan's view on the exclusion of personal assistants?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is fairly conclusive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Can Ms Larthwell give us that breakdown then?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 119. To ask the Minister for Health if he will honour his predecessor's commitment to provide five additional clinical practice tutor posts for radiation therapy to increase the number of college places for students in the coming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26419/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurse posts in each LHO, in tabular form. [26418/24]