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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 750. To ask the Minister for Health his views on an article (details supplied); if the HSE vacancies in 2023 were fully funded; where that funding was allocated; if these posts are still funded since the lifting of the HSE recruitment embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36619/24]

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I was not expecting to come in so soon.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: Yes, you did. I thank everybody for coming in. I really enjoyed everybody's contributions, which have been very informative. These meetings are very good for the committee in respect of when we go forward with any proposed legislation. They have been very informative. For the sake of full disclosure, I worked with Denis in front-line addiction services for several years. We were...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: I thank Mr. Murray. I have a question for the ICGP witnesses as well. Will they explain the current process for someone who presents to one of their members? Let us, for example, take the issue of polydrug use. A person might be looking for treatment or access to rehabilitation. What is the process now? What does it look like and what should it look like if the appropriate resources...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: I was listening to the radio this morning and there was a report about the launch of a document from Merchants Quay Ireland. That organisation is saying if it doubled the number of beds it has available for people going into rehabilitation, it would still not be enough. Is it difficult now to refer the people and patients who enter the services provided by the witnesses into drug...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: As was said, this window of opportunity is sometimes really small when somebody is motivated and in that space to get treatment. It is important to have the appropriate services. One of the things I am finding out is about going through detox and into rehabilitation. We have Cuan Dara in my area where people go in for detox. There used to be a transition into the likes of Keltoi, but...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: We support this Bill because it provides for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety. We need to bring the health service into the 21st century in order to improve productivity, efficiency and value for money and properly hold the system to account. It is 2024, and the fact we do not have an integrated IT system across the HSE is a damning...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (24 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 393. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the childcare facilities in place in Palmerstown, Dublin 20; if there are plans to increase availability of services and places in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37876/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 479. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 5 March 2024, if his office or Department have had consultation (details supplied) in relation to examining the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023; what these consultations would consist of; when they will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37530/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 498. To ask the Minister for Health the number on the waiting list for CAMHS for the month of August, by CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37638/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 88. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of parents that have put in a complaint that their child did not receive an assessment of needs in a timely manner; the number upheld in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37976/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to general inpatient hospital wards with a primary diagnosis of mental health difficulties in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the average length of time children spent in general wards with this diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to general inpatient hospital wards with a primary diagnosis of mental health difficulties in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the average length of time children spent in general wards with this diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the OPW of providing dog kennels in Garda dog handlers' homes, per kennel, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39002/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the OPW of providing electrical vehicle charging points in Garda stations in the Dublin metropolitan region, per station, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 518. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the pending sale of a nursing home (details supplied) to a for-profit private care provider, the efforts his Department, the older persons’ portfolio, and their Ministers, make to secure the facility as a high-quality, State-run public facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 519. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the lack of publicly funded older persons’ beds, the measures he has taken in his tenure as a Minister to ensure that private homes in crisis going for sale are secured by the State, in order that residents are not paying the price for State policy failures. [39056/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 520. To ask the Minister for Health to provide copies of all correspondence from his office to show the actions that were taken to secure a nursing home (details supplied) as a State-run facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39057/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 521. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the high death toll in nursing homes (details supplied), the steps he has taken by way of research to investigate the impact of transfer trauma on residents in these facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39058/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 546. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the TrakCare system in the National Forensic Mental Health Service; to report on the improvement to services as a result of its use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39153/24]