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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 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: Home Care Packages (20 Apr 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: Home Help Service (20 Apr 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: Home Care Packages (20 Apr 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: Home Help Service (20 Apr 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: Care of the Elderly (20 Apr 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: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 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: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 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: Nursing Homes (20 Apr 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: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: The Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) regularly publish public health advice for older people and other service users on how to stay well and be protected, including publications on keeping well in winter and on vaccination, which are available online on HSE’s and HPSC's websites at the following web...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: The Minister and I are committed to the development of a new community nursing unit for older persons in Cashel. As the Deputy is aware, a community nursing unit and a ten-bed crisis house for mental health are already under construction in Clonmel. The HSE has advised that the existing hospital site is not suitable for the new 60-bed community nursing unit. It has also advised that the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: The development has been included in the capital plan since last year and will go ahead.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. As the Deputy will be aware, GPs are private practitioners, although most GPs hold contracts with the HSE to provide services under public health schemes. There are currently 2,539 GPs with a general medical services, GMS, contract for the provision of GP services without charge...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I do not have a response in respect of primary care centres at the moment but I know the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, was in counties Sligo and Donegal last Friday to open three primary care centres. Nine primary care centres were announced in December last year. We have been building primary care centres for the past five or six years and rolling out eight or nine of them each year....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. I know it has been an issue of concern for women and their families. I fully appreciate that limitations on partners accessing maternity services have been very difficult for everyone over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. That is why I was surprised earlier when I read the topic to which I was to respond this evening. I was not...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I acknowledge how important the support of partners is to women throughout their pregnancy journey. It is also important that the partners be present as much as possible. The Deputy might have hit the nail on the head when she talked about some of the older buildings and some of the risk assessments. It is really important that we have evidence-based decision-making regarding restrictions....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: The Deputy is quite right. In the last budget, the Government provided €750,000 from the mental health budget to support counselling psychologists. As we know, clinical psychologists were already funded but counselling psychologists and educational psychologists were not. When I met with the Psychologists Association of Ireland, it pointed that out. Under my remit as Minster of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: That is what I have decided to do. We are working with the psychologists, Trinity College Dublin and the HSE to work out the details.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, in early 2016, a capital programme for older persons' residential centres was developed by the Government to replace, upgrade and refurbish care facilities at approximately 90 locations throughout the country, and this is happening all over the length and breadth of the country. The Deputy will be aware that one is under way in Clonmel, with a new...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: -----comprising 60 beds, and also a crisis home for mental health patients with another ten-bed unit-----