Results 8,101-8,120 of 11,572 for speaker:Mary Butler
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (28 Feb 2023)
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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (28 Feb 2023)
Mary Butler: As the question relates to a service matter, I am forwarding the PQ to the HSE for a direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (28 Feb 2023)
Mary Butler: A significant fund of €81m has been allocated to support community based voluntary organisations who are such an essential pillar in the provision of Health services across country. These organisations are funded through the HSE to deliver a range of health and social care services similar or ancillary to those that the HSE may provide to communities around Ireland. This...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Feb 2023)
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 (28 Feb 2023)
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 (28 Feb 2023)
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 (28 Feb 2023)
Mary Butler: As the question relates to a service matter, this PQ has been forwarded to the HSE for a direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Feb 2023)
Mary Butler: As the question relates to a service matter, this PQ has been forwarded to the HSE for a direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Feb 2023)
Mary Butler: As the question relates to a service matter, this PQ has been forwarded to the HSE for a direct reply to the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As she knows, any older person, regardless of whether they live at home, live in a community care home or live in a nursing home, if they have a medical card, is entitled to the same rights. Whatever the medical card entitles them to, for example, incontinence supports or physiotherapy, they are entitled to that regardless of where they are living,...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: In some instances, it is not happening. I spoke to the Deputy in the corridor about it and she said she would send me on some information. If she would-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: The Deputy spoke to me and I am the Minister of State with responsibility for older people, so if she wants, she can copy me into that and we will certainly look at it. The Department is currently looking at the situation.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his continued interest in this. As he knows, home care is so important to the 56,000 people across the length and breadth of the country who receive home care to support them to age well at home. I hope to have this legislation before the House around June. We have done substantial work on it. It is a complicated issue and it is important we legislate and put home...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Donnelly for raising this issue and apologise for being a couple of seconds late. I was watching the screen, waiting for the round-up and the next minute, I had to dart across. I am taking this on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly. CHI at Connolly, which opened in July 2019, is a children's outpatient and urgent care centre staffed by specialist paediatric...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his contribution and the sentiments he expressed. In 2022, nearly 24,000 children presented at the urgent care centre, 91% of whom were discharged after their visit. As the Deputy knows, the urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital has a significant number of short-stay observation beds, in addition to the contemporary use of ICT to support ambulatory and urgent care...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (1 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: The Government is committed to supporting healthy and positive ageing as well as to ensuring that older persons can continue to live independently in their homes and communities for as long as possible. Acknowledging the disproportionately negative impact of the pandemic on older persons, the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future (2020) commits to the establishment...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Mar 2023)
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: Eating Disorders (1 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 to 178, inclusive, 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: Nursing Homes (1 Mar 2023)
Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 180 to 182, inclusive, together. 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. Participants contribute to the cost of their care according to their means while the State pays the balance of the cost.The NHSS covers the cost of the standard...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Mar 2023)
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.