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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (15 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: The Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS), commonly referred to as 'Fair Deal', is a system of financial support for people who require long-term residential care. The primary legislation underpinning the NHSS is the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009. Participants contribute to the cost of their care according to their means, while the State pays the balance of the cost. Under the rules of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: There is no update at present on the position set out in Parliamentary Question No. 591 of 15 November 2022. The Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS), commonly referred to as 'Fair Deal', is a system of financial support for people who require long-term residential care. The primary legislation underpinning the NHSS is the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009. Participants contribute to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Nov 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: Departmental Meetings (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I can confirm to the Deputy that neither myself, nor the Minister for Health, nor officials from Older Persons Services in the Department of Health have met with representatives of the organisation referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is the independent body responsible for promoting quality and safety in the provision of health and personal social services for the benefit of service users. HIQA has informed my Department that the company referred to in the Deputy’s question is not the registered provider of any nursing home in Ireland and as such, is not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Nov 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 (23 Nov 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 (23 Nov 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: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I recognise how difficult it has been for the families of nursing home residents who died during this pandemic, which has presented one of the greatest and most wide-ranging public health challenges internationally in recent history. The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly T.D., and I met with relatives of those who passed away in the nursing home specified by the Deputy in October...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Nov 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 (23 Nov 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: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 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 (23 Nov 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 (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 208 and 209 together. 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: Health Services (23 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I thank the Cathaoirleach and members for the invitation to this meeting of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. I am joined today by Ms Siobhán McArdle, assistant secretary, of the social care, mental health and drugs policy division and Dr. Philip Dodd, mental health policy and clinical specialist, in the Department of Health; and by Mr. Niall Brunell, principal officer,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question. I will work in reverse. With regard to CHO 9 and the lack of peer support workers, the whole premise of Sharing the Vision, our new mental health policy, is key supports in the community with peer support and people with lived experience of recovery, hospitals and all the community supports needed. I am surprised to hear that and I will look into it. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I ask Dr. Dodd to respond to the question on dual diagnoses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: The new policy we work off does. Everybody welcomed that. The Deputy is correct; people can present with mental health illness but that might be masked by addiction to drugs or alcohol. Previously, that was perhaps a reason that mental health issues could not be addressed. That is no longer the way. We are building on that but it takes time. We started, as Dr. Dodd said, with some pilot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: That comes under the remit the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and not mine. I take the Deputy's point, especially regarding older people. In my constituency in County Waterford, the social housing stock is where the challenge is. The budget is always tighter, whereas people who own their homes can avail of the budget more quickly in my experience in Waterford at least....