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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 945. To ask the Minister for Health if the national treatment purchase fund is an option in the case of a person (details supplied), given the lengthy wait time for an appointment. [39195/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 960. To ask the Minister for Health if officials from her Department will meet with a delegation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 961. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to ensure broad and meaningful consultation on alcohol harm and its inclusion in the new national drugs strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 962. To ask the Minister for Health if reducing and preventing alcohol harm is to be clearly named as a priority area with clear key objectives and actions in the next national drug strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39309/25]

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I welcome the additional funding for those local authorities that would have been categorised as self-financing. In the case of Dublin city, that will amount to about €19 million in extra funding. I say extra, but this is money raised in Dublin city being retained in Dublin city. It is always difficult to get excited about additional funding for local authorities because in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: When the Secretary General of the Department was before the Committee of Public Accounts, the accounts that were prepared showed several hundred million retained in the LPT fund, which was egregious because there was a need for it to be implemented. Will the distribution of additional funding happen to continue to ensure that no surplus is generated?

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The Estimates contain many streams of funding. One of them helps fund housing aid for older people. The Minister will know, because I have discussed it with him privately, about the recent EU directive to prevent the subsidisation of carbon-consuming devices, namely gas or oil boilers. The change to the scheme this year has had an impact in the context of how it is implemented. In Dublin...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: There is a very simple system where someone can replace a whole gas boiler system with an electric radiator system for between €3,000 and €7,000. We need to explain that to people, have a package that is easily available and have contractors in the market. The difficulty is that there is nobody in the market repairing second-hand boilers. It is hard enough to get a plumber to...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: The solution needs to come from the SEAI. On affordable housing, at this committee and at the public accounts committee, the Department and the industry have both stated that within the M50 ring there will, at least in the foreseeable future, never be a home built to sell for profit. Effectively, most of the units to be built in that area will be subsidised in one form or another, whether...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (15 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I might forward to the Minister details of a number of sites that have been identified in my area as reaching the threshold of viability. The Department needs to work very closely with Dublin City Council to make sure they are built. Regardless of whether they are subsidised, we need the construction to start. We can work out the finances of it as it goes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: This morning, we engage with the Health Information and Quality Authority to discuss its 2023 financial statements. From the authority, I welcome Ms Fitzgerald, Mr. Finbarr Colfer, chief inspector designate, Mr. Sean Angland, chief operating officer, Mr. Sean Egan, director of healthcare regulation and Ms Susan Cliffe, deputy chief inspector with responsibility for older persons services....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: With the agreement of committee I will take my slot now to prevent us having to reschedule the speakers list. Ms Fitzgerald stated there is a dent in the armour. The stronger phrase is that the trust in HIQA and the regulatory regime has been damaged. I have seen a particular impact because Beneavin nursing home is in my own constituency. I wish to acknowledge the immediate briefing...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: All three nursing homes were inspected on one day.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: How many times has HIQA attended the three nursing homes?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: People will be somewhat reassured by the frequency of inspections since then. In those subsequent inspections, has anything been discovered that posed an immediate threat to the health, safety or welfare of the people within the nursing home that would warrant its closure?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Many people will have made the decision to place a relative there on the basis of the previous HIQA reports, which effectively gave the centres a clean bill of health. The question arises, how can a clean bill of health be issued for a nursing home in which an undercover investigation - "undercover" might be the operative word - discovered a very different reality? What can Ms Cliffe say to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: When Ms Cliffe mentions the resident profile, she means there was a higher level of dependency.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: I am glad Ms Cliffe mentioned both management and ratios because the issue of ratios arose frequently in the programme. I believe HIQA does not have a required ratio like the ratios in childcare. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Does the Department have any comment on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: It is accepted that standard ratios are an important factor and should be in place.