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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive home care packages delivered in each of the years 2021 and 2022, by LHO, CHO and month in tabular form. [55105/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive home care packages delivered in each of the years 2014 to 2020, by CHO, in tabular form. [55106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1143. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for intensive home care packages, by LHO, CHO and month, in tabular form; and the number of persons experiencing delayed discharge from hospital due to a delay accessing intensive home care. [55107/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consumers directed home support applications and grant approvals in each of the years 2021 and 2022, by LHO, CHO and month in tabular form. [55108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1145. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consumer directed home support applications and grant approvals in each of the years 2017 to 2020, by CHO in tabular form. [55109/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1146. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to replace the paper-based system used to collate home care applicants' details called the Common Summary Assessment Report (CSAR) with an electronic Single Assessment Tool (SAT); the timeline that he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55110/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1147. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed overview of the current age profile of home care workers employed directly by the HSE and those employed by external providers contracted by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55111/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1148. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a licensing framework for home care providers and secondary legislation, setting out the minimum standards with which providers must comply in order to be licensed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55112/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 1174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) from a person working in a Covid-19 testing centre; if he will outline the current situation in respect of the employment of staff carrying out Covid-19 tests in HSE centres across the country; if all staff in Covid-19 test centres will have their contracts extended; if not, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that the vacant property tax announced in Budget 2023 was set at 0.3% tax on the value of the vacant home; the rationale for selecting this level and not implementing a higher tax which takes account for inflation in land value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56001/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: In the Minister's speech on budget 2023 in September, he announced a vacant homes tax, something for which most of us have been calling for years. It was welcome that he did announce a tax, but it was impossible to understand the rationale for setting it at merely 0.3% of the value of the home. Can he explain to us the rationale for setting it at that level? On what basis did he set the figure?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister may believe that but I cannot understand why. Did he take advice on the likely impact of a tax set at such a low level? Was any research done on it at all? The other side of this concerns what is happening to property prices. We are aware that in the year to last August, property prices increased by 12.2%. In the context of somebody being able to leave a property vacant for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is a serious dereliction of duty for the Minister, and the Government, not to take action to unlock the availability of the property.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister has not really addressed the question I asked. In the context of a situation where somebody can continue to sit on a vacant property, which will increase by, say, 10% to 12%, over a year, how will a tax of 0.3% make any difference? Could he be straight with us? What exactly is his rationale here? Has he based his belief on any evidence whatsoever? The other point I would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister referred to the budget document of the Social Democrats.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: We called for a punitive tax of 10%, which would be meaningful.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I know that today the Tánaiste will be feeling relieved that the Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, has announced it will not be investigating his leak of a draft GP contract to one of his friends back in April 2019. In a statement last night, he said he had been cleared of "any breach of ethics or standards". I can understand why he said that, but it would be much more...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am speaking about Fine Gael and its role here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Let us keep the focus there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Let us keep the focus there.