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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (2 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: The Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Act 2021, which was signed into law on 22 July 2021, introduced further safeguards into the NHSS to further protect the viability and sustainability of family farms and businesses. It also includes an amendment in relation to applying the 3-year cap to the proceeds of sale of a house while a resident is in long-term care. This addresses the first...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: 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 (2 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: 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 (2 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: I will come in on home care because I know that the committee has examined this over the past number of weeks. Last year, the HSE provided 20.46 million hours of home support. Some 7.5 million hours were provided directly by the HSE and 12.9 million hours were provided by private providers, as we have seen increased demand for home care. Some 55,000 people receive home care. We are...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: We have put a strategic workforce planning group in place. There was some criticism that it took a while to get this group up and running. This is not going to be just a talking shop. We are looking at everything in respect of recruitment retention, how attractive it is to go into home care as a profession, and, for example, how we cannot drop any standards. People have to have a level 5...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: People must take eight modules to do a level 5 qualification, but if someone has started it, a person can be accepted very quickly into home care, even if he or she has not completed the course. The strategic workforce planning group is meeting next week for the first time. I have engaged with both the HSE and the private sector. Over the past two weeks I have met the area lead for older...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: Last year, 20.5 million hours were delivered and I have the funding to do more. Those 5,300 people who are waiting at the moment for home care are not waiting because of a funding issue but because of a service delivery issue. The private capacity is even nearly maxed out at the moment. Currently we have rolling recruitment campaigns across all of the HSE and the CHOs. In CHO 5, we will...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: Currently, the funding is there to provide 24 million home care hours. We do not have the staffing capacity currently to do that. That is why we have put this strategic workforce planning group in place. On the other issue raised by the Deputy, I presume he is referring to when the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, was before the committee during the week. When dealing with people who...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy.
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: All HSE staff have free access through SilverCloud to self-directed online supports for mental health. Staff counselling is also available. During Covid-19 this was made available also to staff working in private facilities. This year I funded €1 million to MyMind, an organisation that provides online supports for people throughout Ireland in 15 different languages. We have to...
- Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022) Mary Butler: The figures I received yesterday showed that, between community nursing units and nursing homes at the moment, we have 320 in outbreak, which is a phenomenal number of outbreaks. The residents are all vaccinated and boosted and are not getting as sick. In the nursing home setting, the average outbreak is approximately eight patients. However, as the Minister alluded to, previously the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Ban on Sex for Rent Bill 2022: First Stage (8 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: No.
- Data Protection Act 2018 (Access Modification) (Health) Regulations 2022: Motion (8 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Data Protection Act 2018 (Access Modification) (Health) Regulations 2022, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 2nd March, 2022.
- Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) (No. 2) Order 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (8 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 36) (Appointed Day) (No. 2) Order 2022, copies of which have been laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 23rd February, 2022, be referred to the Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science,...
- International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: I welcome the opportunity to speak in the House today as we mark International Women's Day. My immediate thoughts are with the women of Ukraine and the monumental challenges they are currently facing - the mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, wives, sisters-in-law and friends. Yesterday, I was very struck by a picture on the front of the Irish Independentof a mother and her...
- Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputies for tabling this motion. I welcome the opportunity to restate the Government's commitment to children with disabilities and their families. There are important challenges we must face if disability services in this country are to meet the hopes and expectations of those at the heart of the service and to enable them optimise their potential as they mature. It would...