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Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data (13 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (13 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (13 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (13 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: The policy position adopted in 2015 to replace the two hospitals referred to by the Deputy has been officially revised and is no longer HSE or Government policy relating to these hospitals, as I advised the Deputy at a meeting on the 7th of November last. The HSE's Social Care Directorate and its National Capital and Property Steering Group have accepted recommendations from HSE CHO 1 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (13 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: First Aid Training (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: The proposed policy change to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS), to cap contributions from farm assets at 3 years where a family successor commits to working the productive asset, has been approved by Government. My Department is working on the development of draft Heads of Bill while considering a number of complex ancillary policy and operational matters which may need to be addressed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: The need for additional beds and the potential to develop a replacement facility to the existing community nursing unit in Lifford will be reviewed further post 2021, when new Census data is available and the Health Service Capacity Review and the National Development Plan have been advanced. The existing unit at Lifford will continue to operate in intervening period. As I advised the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Psychological Assessments (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Seanad: Children's Health Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: I thank Senators for their input to date. We are back to Report Stage on the amendment of a Bill that originated in this House and has been accepted in the Dáil. I am back to seek approval to accept that amendment. The amendment provides for the inclusion of "mental health" in section 6(1). It will now read, in part: "The object of Children’s Health Ireland is to improve,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: I acknowledge the invitation to the Minister, Deputy Harris, to me and to the other Ministers of State to attend the meeting today. I also acknowledge the presence of Mr. Jim Breslin, the Secretary General. I also welcome Mr. John Connaghan, the acting director general of the HSE, and the accompanying HSE officials. We have been invited here to provide an update on issues affecting the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: The Deputy's diagnosis, for want of a better term, is one with which I could not agree more. Everybody in the room accepts that there are difficulties, challenges, waiting lists and unacceptable delays in front-line services and it is a case of what we are going to do about it and how we are going to approach it. There is no quick-fix answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: I might finish addressing the point the Deputy made about all of those difficulties and challenges. While it is probably too late, there is at least a direction, focus and investment under the overall Sláintecare framework. This year, more than ever, one can see the alignment with Sláintecare. Into 2019, as the service plan is developed, there will be more emphasis on lowering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: I do not have the figures but I will ask the Director General to answer. Does the Deputy mean in the past year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: There was an additional aspect of the Deputy's question which was the reference to catastrophic failures which makes it more difficult. I can provide the Deputy with an answer on whether people have been dismissed from the service in the past 12 months and the reasons for those dismissals will be manifold, individual and unique. We cannot say these people were dismissed because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: I cannot answer for the system and from within the HSE. Formal sanctions are matters I will have to direct to the HSE. The Deputy's question is specifically about catastrophic failures. He is asking if anyone has been dismissed for catastrophic failures within-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: Yes, and the answer to that is "No". To the best of my knowledge, no one has been dismissed for the litany the Deputy terms catastrophic failures.