Roisin Shortall says : “Last night, the government’s mandatory quarantine system had to pause bookings as it ran out of hotel capacity – just 18 days after it was set up,”

dublinpeople Wednesday, April 14, 2021 9:54:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall says : “Has the government done any modelling to gauge the projected demand for these rooms?”

dublinpeople Wednesday, April 14, 2021 9:54:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : "The Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) said the main criteria for selecting EU countries is the level of variance,"

irishmirror Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:20:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “The Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) said the main criteria for selecting EU countries is the level of variance,”

waterford-news Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7:01:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “The Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) said the main criteria for selecting EU countries is the level of variance,”

carlow-nationalist Tuesday, April 13, 2021 6:49:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall asked : “What happened to the money that was made from the transaction involved?”

belfasttelegraph Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:12:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall asked : “What happened to the money that was made from the transaction involved?”

independent-ie Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:42:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall commented : "It undermines confidence in the entire vaccination roll-out and is extremely disappointing, especially for our older people and those at high-risk"

RTERadio Friday, March 26, 2021 10:17:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

waterford-news Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:59:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus," "However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do"

irishmirror Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:59:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

eecho Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:50:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:02:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

westernpeople Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

waterford-news Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:24:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We need to know from the Central Bank why it took five years for them to impose this fine and have some level of accountability,” “That is only a start in relation to accountability. These individuals benefited financially themselves, they need to address that fact, but they also need to address the fact that they were not in compliance with a lot of the requirements of senior company people,”

waterford-news Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:20:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “The development of lands in Coonagh should see real benefit to the entire community; this project fails to deliver public gain for public lands. It fails to deliver on the housing requirements of Limerick people, which were reflected in the original tender. It fails to deliver on accessible healthcare as outlined in Sláintecare,”

limerickleader Tuesday, March 2, 2021 6:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “the reality is that it’s likely to be well into the Autumn before sufficient numbers are vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity”

irishmirror Friday, February 26, 2021 11:28:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : “Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven’t heard that wider messaging from Nphet,”

beat102103 Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:01:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : "NPHET say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven't heard that wider messaging from NPHET,"

irishmirror Tuesday, February 23, 2021 9:26:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : “Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven’t heard that wider messaging from Nphet,”

waterford-news Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:40:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : "Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven't heard that wider messaging from Nphet,"

eecho Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : “Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven’t heard that wider messaging from Nphet,”

independent-ie Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:56:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Nphet can be behind the curve a bit, they were in relation to ventilation, they were in relation to face masks,”

irishexaminer Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3:38:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “the majority of people in Ireland have sacrificed a huge amount to keep themselves and others safe during this pandemic, yet a small minority continues to flout the rules on travel”

irishtimes Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:48:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Whether people are calling it a maximum suppression strategy or an aggressive suppression strategy it amounts to the same,”

thejournal Wednesday, February 10, 2021 4:38:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "nobody knows what the Taoiseach is talking about"

irishexaminer Friday, February 5, 2021 2:17:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I’ve said consistently that the Government’s failure, and indeed the last government’s failure, to address the issue of travel has been the biggest single failing in relation to the response to Covid,”

carlow-nationalist Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:35:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "nobody knows what the Taoiseach is talking about"

irishexaminer Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I’ve said consistently that the Government’s failure, and indeed the last government’s failure, to address the issue of travel has been the biggest single failing in relation to the response to Covid,”

westernpeople Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:03:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I’ve said consistently that the Government’s failure, and indeed the last government’s failure, to address the issue of travel has been the biggest single failing in relation to the response to Covid,”

msn-uk Wednesday, February 3, 2021 5:26:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "it's important that we don't raise people's expectations"

irishexaminer Friday, January 29, 2021 3:28:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "We cannot afford to have the issues that happened with the testing and tracing"

RTERadio Friday, January 8, 2021 10:13:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We have a situation where less than 10 per cent of the passenger locator forms are being followed up successfully with phone calls,” “If we don’t have vigilant monitoring of incoming passengers, it is hard to see how we can control our borders to prevent the importation of the virus and the new strain. We have never had proper monitoring since the pandemic began, and yet again we have mixed messaging about testing and self-isolation for people travelling”

irishtimes Thursday, December 24, 2020 1:06:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "The latest figures are a cause for concern and health advice must be taken on board if we are to avoid a return to full lockdown in January"

RTERadio Friday, December 18, 2020 2:39:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : "On Tuesday, the Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,"

irishmirror Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,"

irishmirror Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

thejournal Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

thejournal Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health [Stephen Donnelly] released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:41:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:41:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

irishexaminer Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:34:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

irishexaminer Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:34:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health [Stephen Donnelly] released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

westernpeople Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

westernpeople Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "This is an absolute flagship project; there are serious questions around the way it has been handled, the way it has been project-managed from the very beginning"

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:30:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It’s not that he didn’t know the rules, it was that he decided not to abide by them in respect of the IMO document”

irishexaminer Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:09:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "by any standards, the past few days have been damaging to the Government"

irishexaminer Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:38:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We have a senior member of Government exposed for engaging in what can only be described as grubby activity for grubby purposes by leaking a confidential document to a rival union while the Government was engaged in negotiations, and those negotiations were still in process with a licensed union”

independent-ie Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "We have the spectacle of a senior member of your government exposed for engaging in what can only be described as grubby activity for grubby purposes," "Leaking a confidential document to a rival union while the government was engaged in negotiations, and those negotiations were still in progress with the licensed union"

irishexaminer Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:20:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “In view of the import of these allegations we’re calling on the Tanáiste to make an immediate public statement on the veracity of these allegations”

thejournal Saturday, October 31, 2020 8:17:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “In view of the import of these allegations we’re calling on the Tanáiste to make an immediate public statement on the veracity of these allegations”

thejournal Saturday, October 31, 2020 6:44:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The bulk of that health spend will be Covid related and will go to PPE and testing and tracing,”

independent-ie Tuesday, October 13, 2020 7:05:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The more light we have in the afternoon the better and it also facilitates people getting out for exercise,”

westernpeople Tuesday, October 13, 2020 1:19:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "We need to ensure that the budget offers hope - hope that incomes can be sustained, jobs can be protected, and the economy can be revived"

RTERadio Friday, October 9, 2020 5:11:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "This is why our budget lays out policies which support a job-rich recovery. We are clear that there must be an unprecedented investment in job protection and job creation"

RTERadio Friday, October 9, 2020 5:11:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The country was distracted by an unseemly row between the Government and NPHET at precisely the moment when all attention should have been on responding to the surge in Covid-19 cases,”

thejournal Thursday, October 8, 2020 6:41:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The country was distracted by an unseemly row between the Government and NPHET at precisely the moment when all attention should have been on responding to the surge in Covid-19 cases,”

thejournal Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The country was distracted by an unseemly row between the Government and NPHET at precisely the moment when all attention should have been on responding to the surge in Covid-19 cases,”

thejournal Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:02:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “There’s been little or no political or public discussion of this. Essentially there are three strategies; there’s herd immunity, there is zero or near elimination, or there is what we are doing,”

thejournal Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5:31:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The scale of the proposed development would present an incongruous ‘landmark’ overlooking residents and business in the area,”

dublinpeople Friday, September 18, 2020 5:46:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “How can you blame people for being confused about what you’re saying – it is entirely confusing”

irishexaminer Tuesday, September 15, 2020 7:48:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “How can you blame people for being confused about what you’re saying – it is entirely confusing”

msn-uk Tuesday, September 15, 2020 6:57:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated ( about The Deputy ) : “The scale of the proposed development would present an incongruous ‘landmark’ overlooking residents and business in the area”

waterford-news Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:35:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated ( about The Deputy ) : “The scale of the proposed development would present an incongruous ‘landmark’ overlooking residents and business in the area”

westernpeople Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall points out : “Actions being taken at the moment are simply not understandable because they are not backed up by any data or evidence”

irishtimes Friday, September 4, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "There seems to be this mindset within government that a second lockdown is inevitable"

independent-ie Thursday, September 3, 2020 3:09:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "In normal times I think we would be having an election at this point, I don't think that is in the interests of the country now, we simply cannot afford to have a situation where there is a three or four-week election campaign and there's effectively nobody in charge. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:26:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “it is hard to understand why the Citywest hotel wasn’t used more extensively as an isolation facility, especially for people in high-risk settings such as direct provision”

irishtimes Thursday, August 13, 2020 3:25:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is simply not good enough to say you do not know,"

irishexaminer Friday, July 24, 2020 9:47:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We need to see mandatory quarantining or double testing of people coming in from countries of high rates of infection if we are to replicate that success here,”

thejournal Tuesday, July 21, 2020 8:45:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It's a really dangerous situation because that system does not distinguish between safe countries and countries like the US,"

heart Monday, July 13, 2020 5:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It's a really dangerous situation because that system does not distinguish between safe countries and countries like the US,"

skynews Monday, July 13, 2020 5:32:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "The document has a lot of good aspirations but there are no indications of any timelines or indeed any indication of how it's going to be funded and that is the critical question - what are the financial underpinnings of this document? "

RTERadio Monday, June 15, 2020 8:57:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "A government has to last and the parties need to be reasonably compatible in their policies. The other thing of course is that there needs to be reasonable relative strength in terms of the numbers of the parties in the government otherwise the things can fall apart"

RTERadio Monday, June 15, 2020 4:32:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated : “We should be looking at manufacturing PPE locally to develop domestic capacity, which will not only relieve financial pressure on our economy but also provide an opportunity to stimulate job creation and ensure a long-term sustainable supply chain”

irishmirror Friday, June 12, 2020 8:47:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "I don't know what there is to investigate other than for the gardaí to liaise with the organisers and ensure there isn't a repeat of what happened in the last couple of days. "

irishexaminer Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:54:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “For probably the most vulnerable group of patients in the country, that is damning”

irishexaminer Tuesday, May 26, 2020 8:43:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We are strongly of the view that trying to continue on with more of the same and a business as usual approach will inevitably be damaging to the vast majority of ordinary households in Ireland,”

irishtimes Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:38:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Why are we not using the full testing capacity when the national strategy is based on test and trace?”

irishexaminer Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “It would be fantastic to implement Slaintecare and do it quickly but both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have been lukewarm on it. There is now an opportunity to accelerate progress on Slaintecare”

independent-ie Sunday, April 12, 2020 4:55:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "Cedarview, which is beside the proposed development, consists of two and three-storey houses"

herald-ie Tuesday, March 31, 2020 5:11:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "This estate will be seriously affected by the Strategic Housing Development (SHD), with towering apartment blocks overlooking it. This will block sunlight and negatively affect the skyline. "

herald-ie Tuesday, March 31, 2020 5:11:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Let’s take a moment, together as a nation, to say thank you to the health care staff who are working tirelessly during this crisis”

thejournal Friday, March 27, 2020 1:28:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Let’s take a moment, together as a nation, to say thank you to the health care staff who are working tirelessly during this crisis. Tonight at 8pm, applaud from your front door/window to show support. The Dáil will also pause to applaud”

thejournal Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:14:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Any party will speak to any party depending on what the numbers are. We thought it was wrong for any party to be excluded [from talks]. The numbers dictate and the public decide what it is going to be”

carlow-nationalist Monday, February 10, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Any party will speak to any party depending on what the numbers are. We thought it was wrong for any party to be excluded [from talks]. The numbers dictate and the public decide what it is going to be”

carlow-nationalist Monday, February 10, 2020 4:30:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Any party will speak to any party depending on what the numbers are. We thought it was wrong for any party to be excluded [from talks]. The numbers dictate and the public decide what it is going to be”

carlow-nationalist Monday, February 10, 2020 3:24:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "Today we are concentrating on just our own numbers and hoping that we will maximise the number of TDs,"

herald-ie Monday, February 10, 2020 6:11:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The sense that so many families feel, they feel they are only living to work,”

thejournal Friday, January 31, 2020 8:30:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "community policing should be the centre piece of policing,"

RTERadio Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:04:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "it is misleading farmers to pretend that it's possible to continue producing beef at the level that we are doing at the moment"

RTERadio Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:04:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “This is about forcing the Government to take a different approach. What Minister Murphy is doing is not working. It’s affecting people in all walks of life. Having a home is out of the reach of lots of people”

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "Fianna Fáil have indicated that they are going to sit on the fence, to abstain in all of this, but there is no doubt that a lot of people have serious concerns. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “This is about forcing the Government to take a different approach. What Minister Murphy is doing is not working. It’s affecting people in all walks of life. Having a home is out of the reach of lots of people”

carlow-nationalist Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:29:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Behind the problem is thousands of families who can’t afford to pay rent. There’s a whole generation of young people who can no longer aspire to buy their own home. The government has completely failed by outsourcing,”

thejournal Wednesday, November 27, 2019 6:12:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Behind the problem is thousands of families who can’t afford to pay rent. There’s a whole generation of young people who can no longer aspire to buy their own home. The government has completely failed by outsourcing,” “Fianna Fáil has a difficult decision next week, stand with Fine Gael or with the people”

thejournal Wednesday, November 27, 2019 3:06:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is about what the next government is focused on and is prepared to deliver. So from our point of view it is much more about what, rather than whom,"

RTERadio Saturday, September 14, 2019 10:01:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is about what the next government is focused on and is prepared to deliver. So from our point of view it is much more about what, rather than whom,"

RTERadio Saturday, September 14, 2019 8:59:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "I think it's unprecedented for a Government to challenge, legally challenge, an independent regulator, and I think it's ill-advised,"

irishexaminer Friday, September 6, 2019 8:38:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is about what the next government is focused on and is prepared to deliver. So from our point of view it is much more about what, rather than whom,"

RTERadio Friday, September 6, 2019 6:12:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I have previously requested the mobile camera to be used again here,”

dublinpeople Friday, August 30, 2019 10:08:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I am pleased that Dublin City Council will install much needed CCTV in this area” “I am hopeful this will discourage illegal dumping”

dublinpeople Friday, August 30, 2019 10:08:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It's very badly needed. Ireland ranks very poorly in European terms for parental leave and flexible work options,"

RTERadio Sunday, August 4, 2019 8:35:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “Ballymun people are determined to ensure that this negative is turned into a positive, and that next year Ballymun will go up the IBAL ratings,”

dublinpeople Friday, August 2, 2019 10:03:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “These figures show that our major acute hospitals have the highest numbers of delayed discharges,”

dublinpeople Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:03:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “A capitalist market with free rein will not provide the solution to the social problems it creates,”

irishtimes Monday, June 24, 2019 3:24:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We are talking about the extension of the Luas to Bray and Finglas, Lucan and Poolbeg. That would be one project that we would like to see brought up the line now. We also want to see progress made in relation to cycling facilities,”

waterford-news Tuesday, June 11, 2019 8:53:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We are talking about the extension of the Luas to Bray and Finglas, Lucan and Poolbeg. That would be one project that we would like to see brought up the line now. We also want to see progress made in relation to cycling facilities,”

carlow-nationalist Tuesday, June 11, 2019 8:33:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "We need to revisit the whole roads programme. We have been saying all along that the focus should very clearly be on public transport and we have highlighted the need for Dart underground, for example, unfortunately the Government rejected that. There are a number of other projects that urgently need to be prioritised, both in relation to the environment and also in relation to better value for money. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, June 11, 2019 4:25:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall wrote : “I believe that this proposal constitutes an overdevelopment of the site and would be inappropriate for Glasnevin Village,”

thejournal Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9:30:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Young people are very tuned into climate change and they understand the need to take further action,”

dublinpeople Wednesday, March 27, 2019 6:22:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “It’s been almost two years since the detailed and costed Sláintecare report was produced based on unprecedented political co-operation – yet today we have another report on a report on a report, but still no proper budget,”

irishtimes Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:58:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "From a clinical point of view, co-location with a maternity hospital is absolutely essential and I think we now have an opportunity to examine the possibility of doing that on a different site. "

irishexaminer Sunday, February 17, 2019 11:09:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is very regrettable that this issue had to come down to the wire before the government as the nurses’ employer engaged constructively with union representatives. "

irishmirror Monday, February 11, 2019 10:47:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall claimed ( about Medium Enterprises ) : “At the Committee Stage the Government changed its mind,” “We want to give more flexibility to parents. The challenge is to keep people in the workforce. In the main, there is support for this from employers. It has the backing of ISME (Irish Small Medium Enterprises)”

eecho Tuesday, January 22, 2019 4:24:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said ( about John Murray ) : "The previous Chief Justice, John Murray, gave a very stinging account of the fact that our legislation is so out of date,"

eecho Friday, December 7, 2018 6:22:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We shouldn’t be making it easier for people to spend money on lottery tickets by putting temptation in their way. ”

irishexaminer Monday, October 2, 2017 4:12:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “In the short term, the priority must be to free up beds caused by delayed discharges,”

irishexaminer Tuesday, September 5, 2017 4:35:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “This type of public administration by stealth lacks transparency, threatens people’s rights and is just not acceptable”

waterford-news Saturday, August 26, 2017 10:31:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “This type of public administration by stealth lacks transparency, threatens people’s rights and is just not acceptable”

irishexaminer Saturday, August 26, 2017 4:06:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated : “This gun attack has been met with shock by the local community who are terrified that recent tensions within the area will now escalate further and spill over into the communities,” “The events are shocking and a huge disappointment to the many community leaders and residents in Ballymun who are building a peaceful community in which families can rear their children in safety, older people can feel secure in their homes and people can go about their ordinary business without fear”

dublinpeople Monday, August 21, 2017 10:14:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall says : “Last night, the government’s mandatory quarantine system had to pause bookings as it ran out of hotel capacity – just 18 days after it was set up,”

dublinpeople Wednesday, April 14, 2021 9:54:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall says : “Has the government done any modelling to gauge the projected demand for these rooms?”

dublinpeople Wednesday, April 14, 2021 9:54:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : "The Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) said the main criteria for selecting EU countries is the level of variance,"

irishmirror Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:20:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “The Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) said the main criteria for selecting EU countries is the level of variance,”

waterford-news Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7:01:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “The Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) said the main criteria for selecting EU countries is the level of variance,”

carlow-nationalist Tuesday, April 13, 2021 6:49:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall asked : “What happened to the money that was made from the transaction involved?”

belfasttelegraph Wednesday, April 7, 2021 8:12:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall asked : “What happened to the money that was made from the transaction involved?”

independent-ie Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:42:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall commented : "It undermines confidence in the entire vaccination roll-out and is extremely disappointing, especially for our older people and those at high-risk"

RTERadio Friday, March 26, 2021 10:17:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

waterford-news Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:59:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus," "However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do"

irishmirror Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:59:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

eecho Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:50:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:02:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

westernpeople Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I think the vast majority of people have severely restricted their movements, and their lives in what can only be described as a huge national effort to limit the spread of the virus,” “However, increasingly, there is a sense that Government has not played its part, and has not done what it promised to do”

waterford-news Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:24:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We need to know from the Central Bank why it took five years for them to impose this fine and have some level of accountability,” “That is only a start in relation to accountability. These individuals benefited financially themselves, they need to address that fact, but they also need to address the fact that they were not in compliance with a lot of the requirements of senior company people,”

waterford-news Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:20:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “The development of lands in Coonagh should see real benefit to the entire community; this project fails to deliver public gain for public lands. It fails to deliver on the housing requirements of Limerick people, which were reflected in the original tender. It fails to deliver on accessible healthcare as outlined in Sláintecare,”

limerickleader Tuesday, March 2, 2021 6:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “the reality is that it’s likely to be well into the Autumn before sufficient numbers are vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity”

irishmirror Friday, February 26, 2021 11:28:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : “Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven’t heard that wider messaging from Nphet,”

beat102103 Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:01:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : "NPHET say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven't heard that wider messaging from NPHET,"

irishmirror Tuesday, February 23, 2021 9:26:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : “Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven’t heard that wider messaging from Nphet,”

waterford-news Tuesday, February 23, 2021 8:40:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : "Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven't heard that wider messaging from Nphet,"

eecho Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told : “Nphet say they are repeating the advice and say that the recommendations for vitamin D are being incorporated into wider messaging in relation to Covid. I have to say I haven’t heard that wider messaging from Nphet,”

independent-ie Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:56:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Nphet can be behind the curve a bit, they were in relation to ventilation, they were in relation to face masks,”

irishexaminer Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3:38:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “the majority of people in Ireland have sacrificed a huge amount to keep themselves and others safe during this pandemic, yet a small minority continues to flout the rules on travel”

irishtimes Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:48:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Whether people are calling it a maximum suppression strategy or an aggressive suppression strategy it amounts to the same,”

thejournal Wednesday, February 10, 2021 4:38:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "nobody knows what the Taoiseach is talking about"

irishexaminer Friday, February 5, 2021 2:17:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I’ve said consistently that the Government’s failure, and indeed the last government’s failure, to address the issue of travel has been the biggest single failing in relation to the response to Covid,”

carlow-nationalist Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:35:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "nobody knows what the Taoiseach is talking about"

irishexaminer Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I’ve said consistently that the Government’s failure, and indeed the last government’s failure, to address the issue of travel has been the biggest single failing in relation to the response to Covid,”

westernpeople Wednesday, February 3, 2021 6:03:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I’ve said consistently that the Government’s failure, and indeed the last government’s failure, to address the issue of travel has been the biggest single failing in relation to the response to Covid,”

msn-uk Wednesday, February 3, 2021 5:26:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "it's important that we don't raise people's expectations"

irishexaminer Friday, January 29, 2021 3:28:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "We cannot afford to have the issues that happened with the testing and tracing"

RTERadio Friday, January 8, 2021 10:13:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We have a situation where less than 10 per cent of the passenger locator forms are being followed up successfully with phone calls,” “If we don’t have vigilant monitoring of incoming passengers, it is hard to see how we can control our borders to prevent the importation of the virus and the new strain. We have never had proper monitoring since the pandemic began, and yet again we have mixed messaging about testing and self-isolation for people travelling”

irishtimes Thursday, December 24, 2020 1:06:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "The latest figures are a cause for concern and health advice must be taken on board if we are to avoid a return to full lockdown in January"

RTERadio Friday, December 18, 2020 2:39:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : "On Tuesday, the Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,"

irishmirror Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,"

irishmirror Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

thejournal Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

thejournal Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:02:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health [Stephen Donnelly] released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:41:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

carlow-nationalist Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:41:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health (Stephen Donnelly) released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

irishexaminer Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:34:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

irishexaminer Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:34:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall told ( about Stephen Donnelly ) : “On Tuesday, the Minister for Health [Stephen Donnelly] released the first report in relation to proposed priority groupings for that vaccine,”

westernpeople Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It was a terrible blow to people in those circumstances to hear they are last on the list to get the vaccine,”

westernpeople Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "This is an absolute flagship project; there are serious questions around the way it has been handled, the way it has been project-managed from the very beginning"

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:30:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “It’s not that he didn’t know the rules, it was that he decided not to abide by them in respect of the IMO document”

irishexaminer Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:09:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "by any standards, the past few days have been damaging to the Government"

irishexaminer Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:38:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We have a senior member of Government exposed for engaging in what can only be described as grubby activity for grubby purposes by leaking a confidential document to a rival union while the Government was engaged in negotiations, and those negotiations were still in process with a licensed union”

independent-ie Wednesday, November 4, 2020 7:16:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "We have the spectacle of a senior member of your government exposed for engaging in what can only be described as grubby activity for grubby purposes," "Leaking a confidential document to a rival union while the government was engaged in negotiations, and those negotiations were still in progress with the licensed union"

irishexaminer Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:20:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “In view of the import of these allegations we’re calling on the Tanáiste to make an immediate public statement on the veracity of these allegations”

thejournal Saturday, October 31, 2020 8:17:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “In view of the import of these allegations we’re calling on the Tanáiste to make an immediate public statement on the veracity of these allegations”

thejournal Saturday, October 31, 2020 6:44:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The bulk of that health spend will be Covid related and will go to PPE and testing and tracing,”

independent-ie Tuesday, October 13, 2020 7:05:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The more light we have in the afternoon the better and it also facilitates people getting out for exercise,”

westernpeople Tuesday, October 13, 2020 1:19:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "We need to ensure that the budget offers hope - hope that incomes can be sustained, jobs can be protected, and the economy can be revived"

RTERadio Friday, October 9, 2020 5:11:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "This is why our budget lays out policies which support a job-rich recovery. We are clear that there must be an unprecedented investment in job protection and job creation"

RTERadio Friday, October 9, 2020 5:11:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The country was distracted by an unseemly row between the Government and NPHET at precisely the moment when all attention should have been on responding to the surge in Covid-19 cases,”

thejournal Thursday, October 8, 2020 6:41:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The country was distracted by an unseemly row between the Government and NPHET at precisely the moment when all attention should have been on responding to the surge in Covid-19 cases,”

thejournal Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The country was distracted by an unseemly row between the Government and NPHET at precisely the moment when all attention should have been on responding to the surge in Covid-19 cases,”

thejournal Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:02:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “There’s been little or no political or public discussion of this. Essentially there are three strategies; there’s herd immunity, there is zero or near elimination, or there is what we are doing,”

thejournal Wednesday, September 23, 2020 5:31:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The scale of the proposed development would present an incongruous ‘landmark’ overlooking residents and business in the area,”

dublinpeople Friday, September 18, 2020 5:46:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “How can you blame people for being confused about what you’re saying – it is entirely confusing”

irishexaminer Tuesday, September 15, 2020 7:48:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “How can you blame people for being confused about what you’re saying – it is entirely confusing”

msn-uk Tuesday, September 15, 2020 6:57:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated ( about The Deputy ) : “The scale of the proposed development would present an incongruous ‘landmark’ overlooking residents and business in the area”

waterford-news Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:35:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated ( about The Deputy ) : “The scale of the proposed development would present an incongruous ‘landmark’ overlooking residents and business in the area”

westernpeople Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:21:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall points out : “Actions being taken at the moment are simply not understandable because they are not backed up by any data or evidence”

irishtimes Friday, September 4, 2020 8:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "There seems to be this mindset within government that a second lockdown is inevitable"

independent-ie Thursday, September 3, 2020 3:09:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "In normal times I think we would be having an election at this point, I don't think that is in the interests of the country now, we simply cannot afford to have a situation where there is a three or four-week election campaign and there's effectively nobody in charge. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, August 25, 2020 11:26:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “it is hard to understand why the Citywest hotel wasn’t used more extensively as an isolation facility, especially for people in high-risk settings such as direct provision”

irishtimes Thursday, August 13, 2020 3:25:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is simply not good enough to say you do not know,"

irishexaminer Friday, July 24, 2020 9:47:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We need to see mandatory quarantining or double testing of people coming in from countries of high rates of infection if we are to replicate that success here,”

thejournal Tuesday, July 21, 2020 8:45:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It's a really dangerous situation because that system does not distinguish between safe countries and countries like the US,"

heart Monday, July 13, 2020 5:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It's a really dangerous situation because that system does not distinguish between safe countries and countries like the US,"

skynews Monday, July 13, 2020 5:32:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "The document has a lot of good aspirations but there are no indications of any timelines or indeed any indication of how it's going to be funded and that is the critical question - what are the financial underpinnings of this document? "

RTERadio Monday, June 15, 2020 8:57:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "A government has to last and the parties need to be reasonably compatible in their policies. The other thing of course is that there needs to be reasonable relative strength in terms of the numbers of the parties in the government otherwise the things can fall apart"

RTERadio Monday, June 15, 2020 4:32:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated : “We should be looking at manufacturing PPE locally to develop domestic capacity, which will not only relieve financial pressure on our economy but also provide an opportunity to stimulate job creation and ensure a long-term sustainable supply chain”

irishmirror Friday, June 12, 2020 8:47:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "I don't know what there is to investigate other than for the gardaí to liaise with the organisers and ensure there isn't a repeat of what happened in the last couple of days. "

irishexaminer Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:54:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “For probably the most vulnerable group of patients in the country, that is damning”

irishexaminer Tuesday, May 26, 2020 8:43:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We are strongly of the view that trying to continue on with more of the same and a business as usual approach will inevitably be damaging to the vast majority of ordinary households in Ireland,”

irishtimes Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:38:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Why are we not using the full testing capacity when the national strategy is based on test and trace?”

irishexaminer Tuesday, May 5, 2020 11:58:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “It would be fantastic to implement Slaintecare and do it quickly but both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have been lukewarm on it. There is now an opportunity to accelerate progress on Slaintecare”

independent-ie Sunday, April 12, 2020 4:55:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "Cedarview, which is beside the proposed development, consists of two and three-storey houses"

herald-ie Tuesday, March 31, 2020 5:11:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : "This estate will be seriously affected by the Strategic Housing Development (SHD), with towering apartment blocks overlooking it. This will block sunlight and negatively affect the skyline. "

herald-ie Tuesday, March 31, 2020 5:11:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Let’s take a moment, together as a nation, to say thank you to the health care staff who are working tirelessly during this crisis”

thejournal Friday, March 27, 2020 1:28:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Let’s take a moment, together as a nation, to say thank you to the health care staff who are working tirelessly during this crisis. Tonight at 8pm, applaud from your front door/window to show support. The Dáil will also pause to applaud”

thejournal Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:14:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Any party will speak to any party depending on what the numbers are. We thought it was wrong for any party to be excluded [from talks]. The numbers dictate and the public decide what it is going to be”

carlow-nationalist Monday, February 10, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Any party will speak to any party depending on what the numbers are. We thought it was wrong for any party to be excluded [from talks]. The numbers dictate and the public decide what it is going to be”

carlow-nationalist Monday, February 10, 2020 4:30:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Any party will speak to any party depending on what the numbers are. We thought it was wrong for any party to be excluded [from talks]. The numbers dictate and the public decide what it is going to be”

carlow-nationalist Monday, February 10, 2020 3:24:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "Today we are concentrating on just our own numbers and hoping that we will maximise the number of TDs,"

herald-ie Monday, February 10, 2020 6:11:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “The sense that so many families feel, they feel they are only living to work,”

thejournal Friday, January 31, 2020 8:30:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "community policing should be the centre piece of policing,"

RTERadio Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:04:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "it is misleading farmers to pretend that it's possible to continue producing beef at the level that we are doing at the moment"

RTERadio Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:04:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “This is about forcing the Government to take a different approach. What Minister Murphy is doing is not working. It’s affecting people in all walks of life. Having a home is out of the reach of lots of people”

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "Fianna Fáil have indicated that they are going to sit on the fence, to abstain in all of this, but there is no doubt that a lot of people have serious concerns. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:36:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “This is about forcing the Government to take a different approach. What Minister Murphy is doing is not working. It’s affecting people in all walks of life. Having a home is out of the reach of lots of people”

carlow-nationalist Tuesday, December 3, 2019 1:29:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Behind the problem is thousands of families who can’t afford to pay rent. There’s a whole generation of young people who can no longer aspire to buy their own home. The government has completely failed by outsourcing,”

thejournal Wednesday, November 27, 2019 6:12:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Behind the problem is thousands of families who can’t afford to pay rent. There’s a whole generation of young people who can no longer aspire to buy their own home. The government has completely failed by outsourcing,” “Fianna Fáil has a difficult decision next week, stand with Fine Gael or with the people”

thejournal Wednesday, November 27, 2019 3:06:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is about what the next government is focused on and is prepared to deliver. So from our point of view it is much more about what, rather than whom,"

RTERadio Saturday, September 14, 2019 10:01:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is about what the next government is focused on and is prepared to deliver. So from our point of view it is much more about what, rather than whom,"

RTERadio Saturday, September 14, 2019 8:59:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "I think it's unprecedented for a Government to challenge, legally challenge, an independent regulator, and I think it's ill-advised,"

irishexaminer Friday, September 6, 2019 8:38:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is about what the next government is focused on and is prepared to deliver. So from our point of view it is much more about what, rather than whom,"

RTERadio Friday, September 6, 2019 6:12:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I have previously requested the mobile camera to be used again here,”

dublinpeople Friday, August 30, 2019 10:08:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “I am pleased that Dublin City Council will install much needed CCTV in this area” “I am hopeful this will discourage illegal dumping”

dublinpeople Friday, August 30, 2019 10:08:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It's very badly needed. Ireland ranks very poorly in European terms for parental leave and flexible work options,"

RTERadio Sunday, August 4, 2019 8:35:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall added : “Ballymun people are determined to ensure that this negative is turned into a positive, and that next year Ballymun will go up the IBAL ratings,”

dublinpeople Friday, August 2, 2019 10:03:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “These figures show that our major acute hospitals have the highest numbers of delayed discharges,”

dublinpeople Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:03:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “A capitalist market with free rein will not provide the solution to the social problems it creates,”

irishtimes Monday, June 24, 2019 3:24:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We are talking about the extension of the Luas to Bray and Finglas, Lucan and Poolbeg. That would be one project that we would like to see brought up the line now. We also want to see progress made in relation to cycling facilities,”

waterford-news Tuesday, June 11, 2019 8:53:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We are talking about the extension of the Luas to Bray and Finglas, Lucan and Poolbeg. That would be one project that we would like to see brought up the line now. We also want to see progress made in relation to cycling facilities,”

carlow-nationalist Tuesday, June 11, 2019 8:33:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "We need to revisit the whole roads programme. We have been saying all along that the focus should very clearly be on public transport and we have highlighted the need for Dart underground, for example, unfortunately the Government rejected that. There are a number of other projects that urgently need to be prioritised, both in relation to the environment and also in relation to better value for money. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, June 11, 2019 4:25:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall wrote : “I believe that this proposal constitutes an overdevelopment of the site and would be inappropriate for Glasnevin Village,”

thejournal Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9:30:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “Young people are very tuned into climate change and they understand the need to take further action,”

dublinpeople Wednesday, March 27, 2019 6:22:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “It’s been almost two years since the detailed and costed Sláintecare report was produced based on unprecedented political co-operation – yet today we have another report on a report on a report, but still no proper budget,”

irishtimes Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:58:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "From a clinical point of view, co-location with a maternity hospital is absolutely essential and I think we now have an opportunity to examine the possibility of doing that on a different site. "

irishexaminer Sunday, February 17, 2019 11:09:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : "It is very regrettable that this issue had to come down to the wire before the government as the nurses’ employer engaged constructively with union representatives. "

irishmirror Monday, February 11, 2019 10:47:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall claimed ( about Medium Enterprises ) : “At the Committee Stage the Government changed its mind,” “We want to give more flexibility to parents. The challenge is to keep people in the workforce. In the main, there is support for this from employers. It has the backing of ISME (Irish Small Medium Enterprises)”

eecho Tuesday, January 22, 2019 4:24:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said ( about John Murray ) : "The previous Chief Justice, John Murray, gave a very stinging account of the fact that our legislation is so out of date,"

eecho Friday, December 7, 2018 6:22:00 PM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “We shouldn’t be making it easier for people to spend money on lottery tickets by putting temptation in their way. ”

irishexaminer Monday, October 2, 2017 4:12:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “In the short term, the priority must be to free up beds caused by delayed discharges,”

irishexaminer Tuesday, September 5, 2017 4:35:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “This type of public administration by stealth lacks transparency, threatens people’s rights and is just not acceptable”

waterford-news Saturday, August 26, 2017 10:31:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall said : “This type of public administration by stealth lacks transparency, threatens people’s rights and is just not acceptable”

irishexaminer Saturday, August 26, 2017 4:06:00 AM EAT

Roisin Shortall stated : “This gun attack has been met with shock by the local community who are terrified that recent tensions within the area will now escalate further and spill over into the communities,” “The events are shocking and a huge disappointment to the many community leaders and residents in Ballymun who are building a peaceful community in which families can rear their children in safety, older people can feel secure in their homes and people can go about their ordinary business without fear”

dublinpeople Monday, August 21, 2017 10:14:00 AM EAT