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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I respectfully disagree with the Senator. The 138% increase in funding for childcare is a very significant development in the past five years.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: The idea that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs should get involved in the planning process in Fingal County Council is astonishing.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: The planning process is an independent process. The suggestion that the Minister would decide whether two houses or a crèche are part of a development is worthy of rebuke.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I welcome the opportunity to address the House on the issues raised by Senator O'Donnell. According to provisional HSE TrolleyGAR data, there was a 17% increase in patients waiting on trolleys year to date in University Hospital Limerick accident and emergency department in September 2019 compared with the same period last year. In September 2019, there were 897 patients counted on trolleys...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: The Senator made a comprehensive case at the committee last week, not just to me and the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, but, more importantly, to Mr. Paul Reid, CEO of the HSE, and Mr. Liam Woods, who, along with the senior team in the HSE, addressed the issue of the scanner. The hospital can do no more than put forward a proposal for funding. The HSE is currently examining the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Staff Recruitment (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank the Senator and acknowledge her contribution, along with that of her colleague, Senator Kieran O'Donnell, at the committee last week. She put a formidable case for dealing with the challenges that exist in University Hospital Limerick. She was not behind the door when it came to making the point to the HSE management team and the ministerial team present. Her frustration is...

Seanad: Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Section 7 of the Childcare Support Act 2018 provides for the persons who are eligible to apply for financial support under the national childcare scheme. The Government, through this Bill, is amending section 7 to ensure that all British citizens, whether resident in Northern Ireland or elsewhere, will retain the same right as Irish citizens to apply for the national childcare scheme....

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Budget 2019 made allowance for an additional €55 million for mental health services. This comprised €20 million continuing cost in 2019 of developments initiated in 2018, combined with €35 million for further new developments. Since 2012, the mental health HSE budget has been increased by almost 40%. This investment has enabled the HSE mental health services to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I am not sure from where comes this €25 million being withheld by the Government from the HSE. I saw a tweet from Mental Health Reform to that effect yesterday.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: The Government is not withholding €25 million from the HSE. The full €55 million that was an order of Government was made available to the HSE to spend. There is a process under which the Department releases the funding as it is needed. The Department does not merely throw the €55 million onto the table and say, "Spend that." It is released as it is being spent and...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Those one-liners might sound good but the reality is that for every challenge in the system, there are many successes. 11 o’clock We have a budget of €1.026 billion this year, up from €711 million when the Government took office in 2012. It represents an increase of almost €400 million in the budget. We also have the refresh of A Vision for Change. In the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy. The reality is that if we had four times the amount of money provided for in the budget, we would still not have the personnel required to deliver services. The figure for this year is €52 million. That is why I have committed to developing a statutory homecare scheme to be unveiled in January 2020. Next year the pilot statutory homecare scheme will begin. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I can assure the Deputy that we are taking it very seriously. This is World Mental Health Day and I am delighted to announce that the mental health telephone line about which I have talked since I became a Minister of State has gone live today. The number is 1800 742 444 which I hope people will promote and put on their phones. It is a service which will direct callers to the most...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: We are much more than lucky. Last year's budget committed to 100 additional therapists to deal with this specific issue. That recruitment is finalised and those 100 therapists are in place, so we expect that to have an impact. Furthermore, as the Tánaiste mentioned earlier, 1,000 additional community posts, which will include many therapists, will also be provided next year as a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I cannot specify where they are going to go. That is a matter for the HSE, which will recruit in accordance to need.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I have stated repeatedly that I do not know how anyone in a mentally distressed state can know what organisation to turn to, and whether they should go to Alone, Aware, Jigsaw, Pieta House, or CAMHS. How are they to know who does what or where to go? Some 1,027 different services are funded by the HSE, and they are trying to promote themselves individually with flyers and brochures about...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I do not have the local information sought. On homecare services, I referred to the statutory scheme and what we were planning to do to address the lack of personnel. The recruitment of 100 additional therapists has just been completed and will have an impact. I do not know offhand how many are in the Deputy’s area, but if he wants me to find out, I will follow up on the matter for him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Home supports enable older people to remain in their own homes and communities, as well as facilitating timely discharge from hospital.  At the end of August, the HSE had provided over 312,000 hours of home support in Clare and 1,191 people were receiving the service.  However, I acknowledge that in some cases access to the service may take longer than we would like and there were...