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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can step in to take over/purchase two nursing homes (details supplied) following HIQA concerns, to prevent their closure and protect the 117 residents living in these facilities and prevent them from losing what is effectively their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24174/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if the bed spaces of residents in a nursing home (details supplied) are being relocated, acquired/arranged on a per-resident basis at the time of that resident’s removal/relocation; if not, if the beds were block-booked in numbers and in advance of any removal/relocation of the residents concerned; if so, the cost associated with this action; and if...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: What a long-awaited and momentous day to finally have the State of Palestine formally recognised by Ireland. Iontach ar fad. Finally, the voices of those who marched, protested and petitioned in their thousands for international law to be upheld and shouted loud and long for Palestine and her people to be recognised have been heard. Ireland and the Irish fought our own struggles with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (28 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take steps to ensure a place in primary school for a child (details supplied). [24022/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (28 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the case of a child awaiting an assessment of need (details supplied) will be examined urgently. [24023/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (28 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the lack of adequate reliable transport facilities available to an organisation (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24025/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for determining the level of accessibility and usability of any doctor's offices for disabled persons, who have attended for appointments having ticked the ‘special assistance needed’ box only to find that essential equipment, hoists and so on are not available at the doctor's offices, resulting in lost time and cost to the person...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Will the Taoiseach clarify whether it is common practice for GPs to put medical card holders who are applying to become patients of their practices onto waiting lists rather than giving an outright refusal, thereby preventing these medical card holders from getting the three refusals required to ask the HSE to step in and appoint a doctor for them? Is this issue specific to GPs in Kildare?...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I am not sure either.

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I, too, am disappointed that the Minister is not here this morning. I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. An ounce of prevention is worth a tonne of cure, as the old saying goes, especially when it comes to children’s dental health. Even the current Government’s failures are stark. More than 200,000 children are entitled to school dental screening...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied) was refused; the reason this has taken nine months for the person to be notified of the refusal. [23155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 166. To ask the Minister for Health can the Minister urgently enquire into the matter of a person (details supplied). [23154/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 24 April 2024, to provide clarification on the matter (details supplied). [23156/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 168. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 10 April 2024, how private nursing homes are expected to fund access to private occupational therapy services for residents where the National Treatment Purchase Fund and fair deal scheme funding does not cover such expenses, leaving residents of very limited means and their families struggling to cover costs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the plans for the future purpose or use for the HSE building in Monasterevin, which currently houses the public health nurse services, when that service is amalgamated with the new day care centre in Monasterevin. [23158/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the protocol in place for paying approved home care providers when home care visits are cancelled by the client; if consideration has been made to pay providers if a call is cancelled at short notice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in advancing recommendation ten of the Cross-Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group, to develop a competency framework that recognises home care workers with additional training and specialist qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23160/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in CHO7 for those approved for home support and waiting for services to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23161/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (22 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in CHO7 currently waiting for home support for longer than three months; the number of people waiting for longer than six months; the number of people waiting longer than 12 months; the number of people waiting longer than 24 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23162/24]

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague Deputy Ó Broin for bringing the motion to the House. To state the Government's housing policies are a disaster is a big understatement. There are record house prices throughout the State, home ownership is at its lowest rate in 50 years and generations are being denied any hope of ever having a home of their own. Instead, the red carpet is rolled out again and...