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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (2 Oct 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 450. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with complex intellectual needs awaiting assessment appointments in CHO 2 by age and length of time waiting (details supplied) in tabular form. [40038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Motorised Transport Grant (2 Oct 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 451. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the motorised transport grant further to the review committee set up in 2013; when recommended conditions will be attached to the grant; if the primary legislation has been drafted; if the policy proposals have been brought to Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40042/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (2 Oct 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the budget allocated to the access and inclusion model of ECCE provision under each of the levels 4 to 7 of this scheme annually since its introduction to date; the amounts allocated under these levels; the amounts drawn down for 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, respectively in each of the four levels in tabular form; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (2 Oct 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties that early education and childcare providers are experiencing in recruiting staff to provide the access and inclusion model, AIM, scheme; her plans to address this difficulty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39827/18]

Engagement with Investment Funds: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue. I apologise on behalf of Deputy Michael McGrath's who could not attend this debate, which has given me the opportunity to speak on the motion. As with Deputies McGuinness and Wallace, this has also been one of the main issues raised by my constituents since my election. The issue is how people are being treated. I also agree with Deputy...

Children's Health Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Fianna Fáil supports this Bill. It puts the new national children's hospital on a statutory footing. The Bill is long overdue, having been on the Government's legislation list for three years. It is disappointing that the new children's hospital will not be operational until 2022. When the St. James's Hospital site was chosen in 2012 it was expected that the hospital would be built...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of a facility (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39167/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed at a facility (details supplied); the number of service users who are enrolled to attend services in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39168/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the development of a site (details supplied); and the timelines and dates for same. [39169/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 144. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to remove means-testing for medical cards for children who are orphaned and cared for by family members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39202/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Guardian's Payment (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to remove means-testing for guardian's payments for children who are orphaned and cared for by family members; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39203/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Guardian's Payment (27 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: 207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the previous occasion on which her Department reviewed guardian payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39204/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will continue from where Deputy Neville finished. He was exactly in my vein as I was going to ask about ICT and data. First and foremost, how long did it take the data to be compiled, and could they be taken from one direct point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How many sources or points did the commission have to go to in order to get the data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: There is one HSE and one human resource, HR, department that govern it all but we had to go to 40 different sources to see where the gaps were in recruitment and filling up positions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is shocking. The witnesses spoke about the embargo being possibly one of the worst things that had happened. The worst thing that I am seeing today, however, is that we do not have a central base for knowing exactly where the gaps in the system are. We should not be focusing on the embargo, but rather on the management skill sets to identify where we need people to work in the various...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How many are being recruited directly from the nursing schools? I know that in Limerick there was a high uptake among all the nursing staff who were approached. I wonder in all the various nursing schools where is it being managed and how did the commission find the data in its report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: That is the word - "action". We were discussing the current professional recruiting of nurses, which was a part of what was announced in the past 18 months. When this review was being done how many of the nursing schools were approached, and how much of it was actioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Health Sector Pay Report: Public Service Pay Commission (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: We focused a lot on the negative effect of the embargo, which I take on board. This was a positive action introduced in the past 18 months, and I would like to know if it was measured as part of the commission. We are going back to 40 different sources.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a number of questions for all the witnesses. I will start with the witnesses from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. The witnesses spoke at length about early childhood care and education, ECCE. My question is about full-time versus the three hours and the fact that only 30% of children attend crèches on a full-time...