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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (12 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue, this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (12 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue, this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (12 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware my Department is developing a new implementation proposal for the National Positive Ageing Strategy. This plan proposes mechanisms to facilitate the identification by NGO stakeholders of their policy priorities, along with regular on-going structured engagement between relevant State Agencies and stakeholders on the key issues so identified. The details of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (12 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (12 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (12 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: This is the first budget of the new partnership Government. It is also the first budget comprised of input from members of all parties and Independents in this House through the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. This is a new and positive move. The context of the budget is the need for fairness. We must see a matching social recovery to mirror the economic recovery and give people a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (13 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue, this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for his question. I am pleased to confirm that the allocation for new developments within mental health services will be even greater than the significant resources made available in recent years. This arises as a result of a combination of increased revenue funding and a major capital allocation which has been secured for mental health services. In line with my...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: I will agree with the Deputy on that. In order to implement A Vision for Change, we need to continue to increase our funding. That is a commitment this Government has given and, for me, it is a commitment it has honoured. However, we know that is not possible over one budget but that it will be implemented over the course of the next three to five years. The Deputy will agree that it...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As announced last week, we will be initiating €35 million of new developments. As the Deputy points out we have not spent all of our funding, nor have we been able to spend it. In anticipating that we would not be able to spend it all in one year, we have decided that we will initiate €15 million of the €35 million to begin the development. All €35 million will...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. It has been brought to my attention. The original allocation for home care packages and home help hours in 2016 for counties Galway and Mayo is in the region of €27.3 million. Home care services across the country are being stretched by demands from more people and for more hours in the evenings and at weekends, all of which cost more....

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: I thank the Deputy again. It is something that has been brought to my attention. I have not been at the hospital yet but I hope to be in Galway in the coming weeks. It is something I can address at that stage. I am aware there have been exceptionally high patient numbers recorded, particularly in Galway - 224 on 27 September and 233 on 10 October were recorded. Similarly there has been a...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: This is a situation we have all found ourselves in throughout the year. The number of people seeking home help hours and care packages at the beginning of this year reached an unprecedented high and without the €40 million in additional funding this year we would possibly see even more cuts than we see across the board now. We will be spending €68.4 million more on home care...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: I thank Deputy Kelleher for raising this question. To return to what Deputy Connolly said, we are not just talking about figures but people's parents, mothers, brothers and sisters. I am pleased to say that overall funding for services for older people has increased to €765 million in 2017, which is an increase of €82 million since the HSE's 2016 service plan. As Deputy...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: I agree with the Deputy. The winter initiative is only one part of this. If we look at the figures and the experts, the number of people over 65 will double in the next 30 years and the number of people in their 80s will quadruple. That does not just happen in winter and we need to be able to provide the resources throughout the year. This is the reason why we have increased and will...

Other Questions: Home Care Packages Funding (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: As Minister of State with responsibility for older people, my focus this year, particularly in this budget, has been on increasing the number of home-help hours and home-care packages with increased funding. Obviously, the nursing homes support scheme and maintaining that funding have been priorities but I am acutely aware that keeping people in their homes and maintain people within the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: It is the Government's intention that people will be provided with the type of palliative care services that they need regardless of what diagnosis they have, how old they are or whether they die in a hospice, an acute hospital, a nursing home or at home. Significant progress has been made in recent years in improving access to specialist palliative care services. Several new hospices...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: There are 67 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Teams and extra services for special service needs have also been introduced in recent years. The HSE is committed to addressing all Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service needs, including the 16-18 age cohort. Using additional funding provided in recent years, the staffing and range of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Oct 2016)

Helen McEntee: The most recent survey of the staffing of Psychiatry of Old Age Services carried out in December 2015 recorded staffing at over 300 whole time equivalents. This does not include a further 30 additional Psychiatry of Old Age posts approved through Programme for Government Funding, and which are currently being recruited. A Vision for Changerecommended that there should be a total of 552 staff....