Results 41-60 of 194 for 5 million speaker:Simon Harris

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (14 Nov 2018)

Simon Harris: ...within current capacity and resources. As part of this process, the HSE requested singular integrated winter plans from Hospital Groups and Community Health Organisations in June 2018. €10 million in additional funding has been allocated in 2018 primarily for provision of supports to get patients home from hospital, where appropriate, before the end of the year. My Department...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: ...taken several measures to provide students with additional resources to meet the costs they face. We have doubled the student assistance fund, a progressive measure by any standards, from €8 million a year to €16 million a year; introduced the first dedicated technology fund to purchase 17,000 laptops for students; and increased mental health supports by €5 million,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Project Ireland 2040 (9 Nov 2021)

Simon Harris: ...Northern Ireland, and as yet, costs have not yet being finalised. The Deputy will recall that along with the Taoiseach, I launched the North-South research programme with a commitment of €40 million over the next 5 years. The HEA are currently evaluating responses to their Call for Proposals from higher education institutions, North and South. Costs cannot be profiled until...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...for students with a disability in higher education including:-The average annual allocation of the Fund for Students with a Disability funding to the higher education sector is in the region of €7.6 million. I have increased the fund for 2024 by 5% to over €8 million.Universal Design measures have been progressed with 19 institutions receiving a total of €3m in funding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 May 2017)

Simon Harris: ...of the impact of this on people’s lives. Reducing waiting times for the longest waiting patients is one of this Government's key priorities. Consequently, Budget 2017 allocated €20 million to the NTPF, rising to €55 million in 2018. In December 2016, I granted approval to the NTPF to dedicate €5 million to a daycase waiting list initiative with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Accident and Emergency Departments (18 Oct 2016)

Simon Harris: ...is already significant experience in using the services of such hospitals to assist in addressing lengthy waiting times for scheduled care. An example of such collaboration is that this year €20 million is being allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, rising to €55 million in 2018. I envisage the NTPF utilising both the public and the private hospitals to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Simon Harris: ...disabilities does not reflect the wider population. That is why we have placed an unrelenting focus on this area and have a new target of 16% by 2028. In January 2021, I announced approval for €5.8 million towards strategic initiatives aimed at supporting students with disabilities to access and engage with higher education funded under the Fund for Students with a Disability...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (9 Sep 2020)

Simon Harris: ...or higher education. There are four areas in which we have tried to invest. One is the SUSI grant process and ensuring the applications are being processed and turned around. We have received 2,500 more applications so far. We are also making sure the system is flexible enough to understand that an applicant's family's income may have changed suddenly this year as a result of Covid and...

Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: The Deputy is correct that the €5 million is thepro ratacost. It is an estimate based on a similar pattern of usage for Irish patients. Some €5.3 million is our most accurate estimate of the cost and it has been provisioned for as part of our Brexit contingency funding. A Belfast resident who gets sick in an unplanned manner while on holiday in France and finds himself or...

Other Questions: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2017)

Simon Harris: ...about it, we have developed waiting list action plans for this year in the areas of inpatient-daycase and outpatient services. These plans focus on reducing the number of patients waiting 15 months or more by the end of October. Under these plans, approximately 14,200 patients have already come off the inpatient-daycase list and almost 49,000 off the outpatient lists. Last December I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Feb 2017)

Simon Harris: ...service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. Reducing waiting times for the longest waiting patients is one of the Government's key priorities. For this reason, €20 million was allocated to the NTPF in the 2017 Budget, rising to €55 million in 2018. In December 2016, I granted approval to the NTPF for the first tranche of funding in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Harris: ...results from the Irish data concur with those observed in Finland and Sweden. All of the studies confirm a strong association between the pandemic vaccine and the development of narcolepsy in the 5 to 19 year age group. However, this is not evidence of causation and further studies are required in order to seek explanations of the increased risk of narcolepsy in children and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Harris: ...the number of patients on waiting lists to be implemented in the latter half of 2016. Key actions include clinical validation of patients waiting for an in-patient or daycase procedure for over 15 months, focusing on providing procedures for the 5% of patients on inpatient and daycase waiting lists for over 18 months and driving process improvement at Hospital Group and individual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Simon Harris: ...and wellbeing of our students is a priority for my Department, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the increased stress and pressure resulting from it. In 2020, a total of €5 million was provided to address student mental health and wellbeing in higher education. HEIs were requested to distribute funding to student-facing services such as: - Recruitment of additional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Harris: ...Purchase Fund (NTPF) figures have shown a continued increase in the number of patients waiting for appointments and/or procedures within the health system in 2016. There are currently over 530,000 patients waiting for an outpatient appointment, an in-patient or daycase procedure as of end of August 2015. As such it is clear that the health system is currently dealing with a considerable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Nov 2018)

Simon Harris: ...within current capacity and resources. As part of this process, the HSE requested singular integrated winter plans from Hospital Groups and Community Health Organisations in June 2018. €10 million in additional funding has been allocated in 2018 primarily for provision of supports to get patients home from hospital, where appropriate, before the end of the year. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (15 Dec 2020)

Simon Harris: ...with certain social welfare and health service executive payments being exempt. Student grant applications for academic year 2020/21 are assessed based on income earned in 2019. As per Article 22(5)(b) of the Student Grant Scheme 2020, income from an applicant’s employment which represents holiday earnings outside of term time, subject to a maximum of €4,500 can be deducted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (24 Mar 2021)

Simon Harris: ...on an equal basis with their peers.  The FSD aims to support the personal, educational and professional development of the participating student and contribute to the achievement of their full potential. Eligible students can receive assistance from the FSD from further education level 5 up to doctoral level 10, and it can be applied for during any year of study. The FSD...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (13 Oct 2021)

Simon Harris: ...our new national access and inclusion plan. This will be published in the coming months and I hope by the end of the year. I have recently announced five performance funding awards totalling €5 million in the higher education sector. This included €1 million in funding for UCC's inclusive education pathways for students with intellectual disabilities. This award was based...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2019)

Simon Harris: ...for Government. Budget 2019 announced that the Government has further increased investment in tackling waiting lists, with funding to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) increasing from €55 million in 2018 to €75 million in 2019. The joint Department of Health/HSE/NTPF Scheduled Care Access Plan 2019 was published recently and sets out measures to improve care...