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Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I have been a practising politician in the constituency of Cork South-West for 15 years and I am very familiar with how the home help system there works. That letter could have been produced last year, the year before or the year before that because-----

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: If I may answer the question. Such a letter may issue in any month of any year because there are 6,000 people waiting for home help. Its being issued does not meant that there is an embargo or freeze on home help. It is continually the case that when people no longer need home help, it is coming back into the system. Some 800,000 additional hours were added to the system this year....

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: There is no cut to home help hours. Nobody who is currently in receipt of home help hours is having them cut or removed. That is a fact. As regards the allocation of new hours, they are coming into the system all the time. However, the demand for them far exceeds the level of supply. Letters such as that referred to by the Deputy issue periodically. Of the 600 delayed discharges, 26...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I know the Deputy is not suggesting this, but I am not trying to defend anything. I am only trying to put it as it is. I cannot answer his last two questions because they are outside of my remit. One of the questions he asked me concerned the four-month wait for approval of an application for carer's allowance. That is the responsibility of the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I agree very much with the Deputy on the issue of communications from the HSE. I have spoken to the HSE about this nationally and I am anxious to speak to the executive locally because there are some conflicting accounts and some confusion. It is not the case that everyone in this room is imagining things. We all know there are communications coming from the HSE that are not altogether...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: The Deputy has asked me why I cannot wipe out the waiting list of 6,000. I am certainly not justifying it. I have made no attempt to do so or to suggest that I have no difficulty with a waiting list of 6,000. It just happens to be a matter of fact that I used in answering-----

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: If the Deputy wishes to enter into that kind of debate, I could remind her that the waiting list was also there when she was doing this job. However, I will not go down that-----

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: The Deputy was a Minister of State in the Department of Health. Anyway, I am not interested in going down that road with her on the politics side of things. If she wants to lay it on me personally, that is fine, and I have no difficulty-----

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I will answer if the Deputy allows me. I do not have to hand an estimate of the additional travel costs from the HSE yet. At present the HSE has an ad hocarrangement in the individual CHOs with the unions. They have agreed blanket hours so they will all have, I imagine, a different cost to submit to me that I will be able to ascertain next week. However, they knew last year about the cost...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: The Deputy will have to address that question to the Minister. I do not have responsibility for the HSE or its performance reports or the publishing of them on the website. Did the Deputy have another question other than her statements? Besides that question, I think she just made statements. The Deputy is entitled-----

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: Yes. I have no difficulty whatsoever doing that for the Deputy.

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: Is this my final contribution?

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I do not have all the micro-details the Deputy seeks, such as the cost of private staff versus public staff. I would have to come back to the Deputy on that. The Government increased the budget by €30 million and committed to an increase in home help hours of 800,000 this year in addition to what was done last year. I expect that to be delivered by the HSE, and that is my input from...

Home Help Service Provision: Statements (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank all the Deputies for their contributions and for bringing this issue to the floor of the House. I very much welcomed the opportunity to, I hope, add some clarity. If I have not done so, or if I have not answered the questions the Deputies asked, I apologise. I am as eager and as anxious as any Deputy to try to get answers. The Government's principal aim is to ensure that funding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (12 Jun 2019)

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: Care of the Elderly (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 178, 184 and 186 together. Homecare is an important support that enables older people to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. It is also key for patient facilitating timely discharge from acute hospitals.  In 2018, 17.5 million home support hours were provided, including hours provided as part of an Intensive Home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: The Deputy appears to be referring to a private nursing home. The Minister has no role in relation to the opening of private nursing homes. 

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jun 2019)

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: Home Help Service (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: The Department is currently developing plans for a new statutory scheme and system of regulation for home support services, the introduction of which the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy commits to in 2021. In preparation for this, the Department published an evidence review undertaken by the Health Research Board of the home care systems that are in place in Germany, the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medical Aids and Appliances (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach as ucht na fáilte, mar is gnách, agus gabhaim buíochas leis an Seanadóir freisin for raising this important issue. The HSE provides a wide range of medical and surgical aids and appliances such as wheelchairs and walking aids free of charge for medical card holders and those participating in the long-term illness scheme....