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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (5 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 934. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the level of accessibility on public transport vehicles is sufficient; his plans to improve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44927/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (5 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 1139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if financial support for a housing facility (details supplied) in County Wicklow as ring-fenced by Wicklow County Council constitutes housing funding support as opposed to Department of Health funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44686/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: A Cheann Comhairle, can I have 60 seconds to speak, please? Would that be possible?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to add my request to this. I wrote to the Minister in June about this. This is the most important and largest dementia care centre of its kind anywhere in the country. Those involved are leading the way. They have revolutionised dementia care in this country. They have been raising the issue for a long time. The centre is a high-care facility and it is getting approximately three...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (6 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I refer to the related issue of appeals going to the courts. A lengthy discussion was held on Committee Stage about finding a reasonable way for people to avoid going to the High Court as their first port of call for an appeal. As Deputy O'Reilly said, it is sometimes necessary for them to do so, and the Supreme Court can also be brought in. At that time, the Minister stated that he would...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (6 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 132. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of the cross-border directive in each year since its inception; the cost of reimbursements for same in each year since its inception; and the number of claims awaiting reimbursement under the directive as of 31 October 2019 or the latest date available. [45644/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (7 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 165. To ask the Minister for Health the details of figures he provided at his budget 2020 press conference for the cost in 2020 of the changes to the income limits for the over 70s medical card announced in the budget; and the estimated full-year cost of the measure. [46001/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the commencement and completion date for the building of a new secondary school in the Greystones and Kilcoole area of County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46536/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates Applications (12 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no regional services for those attending primary medical certificate assessment appointments meaning all applicants to the scheme must travel to Dublin to attend the assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46059/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (12 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health if a Supplementary Estimate of €335 million is still expected for the health service in 2019; and if there has been a revision of same [46221/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (12 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 600 extra acute beds to be phased in by the end of 2020 that have been provided and are in use as of 1 November 2019 further to the 2018 announcement; the hospitals in which they have been provided; if the balance of the 600 will be in place and used by patients by the end of 2020; and the hospitals in which the remainder of the 600 beds...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance in age groups (details supplied) [46755/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I apologise sincerely for being late. We are trying to keep St. Joseph's Shankill dementia care centre open so we had a big rally outside the gates. I needed to be there. I acknowledge the work of the INMO's members. The current system is extraordinarily difficult. Almost every interaction I have had with public hospitals and some of the community-based services - the nursing services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Thank you. I apologise to the Chair if I am covering ground that has already been covered. Given it is obvious a workforce plan is needed, given we are looking at one-year, five-year and ten-year thinking and investment in training, in graduate courses and in recruitment and retention, and given there is a commitment in place for that, and it is plain as day that we need it, what is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: While the committee has probably already discussed this at length, we had senior management of the HSE at the committee recently and I put the recruitment pause directly to them. I said I am being contacted by nurses who are telephoning hospitals around the country, and I named various hospitals, and they are being told there is a recruitment ban in place. I put it directly to HSE...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Yes, that is exactly what it is. I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha for that. Some really good progress was made by the INMO over the last two years in terms of getting agreed safe staffing levels. When I go into the acute hospitals, what the doctors and nurse managers say is that they do not have the nurses on the ward. I was in a hospital recently and one nurse seemed to be doing all the work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: If I understand what Ms Ní Sheaghdha is saying correctly, no commitment is in place for that, as things stand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Has any progress been made to date or is this something we are hoping happens in the future, in terms of actual staffing levels and ratios?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Has the ratio moved in the right direction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Nov 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it true to say that nothing has happened?