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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 83. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the ongoing delays in accessing the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42996/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The fair deal scheme is currently in crisis. Up to 2,000 vulnerable people are waiting for the processing of applications under the scheme. Will the Minister of State explain why this inordinate delay is being imposed on the public in the context of the need for care in geriatric services?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The crisis has targeted the most vulnerable people. I would like the Minister of State to explain to the House the reason there is a 15 week waiting time in respect of the processing of applications under the fair deal scheme. The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, in the recent past blamed the crisis on his predecessor.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister is on record in that regard in terms of his comments that this money was being diverted to other locations within the budget. What plans does he have in terms of immediate intervention to ensure families whose loved ones are stepping down from an acute setting get their rights in terms of supports under the fair deal system? The costs they are experiencing in terms of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I agree with the Minister of State that long-term care is a last resort. However, the traditional care structure has been shattered by the Government's approach with respect to the carer's allowance, home help hours, respite grants and so on. Will the Minister of State agree that delaying or adjusting budgets in this manner, as has been done in the area of mental health in terms of the time...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 86. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the underspend of €46.8 million in the mental health budget in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42997/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister of State recently confirmed in response to a parliamentary question that there had been a underspend of up to €46.8 million in the mental health budget. In light of the severe pressure the service is encountering, will the Minister of the State offer the House some rationale for the underspend of €46.8 million in that budget?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: Treatment delayed is treatment denied. The service plan for the recruitment to critical posts that the Minister of State stands over was denied to ensure staff were not on the books until the fourth quarter of 2014, thereby avoiding that payroll cost. Subsequent to last year's budget, the Minister of State publicly committed to ring-fencing €15 million to address the Government's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister of State keeps beating over the head everyone who does not support her version of A Vision for Change.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister of State has not listened to the concerns of front-line staff regarding financial resources, for example, those in Beaumont Hospital who resigned citing overcrowding in that hospital as well as funding for A Vision for Change. The Government has underspent.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: From his post.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I support A Vision for Change, but I do not support the Government's cherry-picking of certain aspects to meet targets of which I am unaware. The Minister of State underspent the budget last year and failed to protect it under the commitment in the programme for Government to recruit specialists. The Minister of State gave a commitment to the public and the House to restore the budget. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: People with mental health issues are not waiting for time-delayed recruitment. They need help and support now.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 111. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the underspend of €46.8million in the mental health budget in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42765/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 147. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the position regarding the continuing practice of admitting children to adult mental health units; the child welfare issues arising from the practice; the rights of children admitted to such units to education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42764/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (11 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: 276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he authorised and sanctioned a private agreement at a location (details supplied) in County Galway between his Department, Teagasc and a company; when this matter was discussed by Teagasc and his Department; when this matter first came to his attention; if his attention has been drawn to the serious ramifications of this...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I do not know if there is any truth in the rumour that the Minister somersaults in celebration down the ministerial corridor on a daily basis as he is the main benefactor of the mess of Irish Water. That mess has been delivered by his party and those limping with him in government. What he has successfully managed to do - I know he agrees with me on this point - is to distract the public...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: I know the Minister was on a different brief, but while the public is consumed with the crisis in Irish Water the Department of Health is failing to address the concerns being highlighted this evening. The Minister will have to up his game and start addressing this. He cannot just cruise into the next general election hoping he will not be held accountable for what is going on in the health...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister has an unwillingness to deal with the reality of the situation, unlike his great leader who wants to let Paddy know. The Minister is failing to inform himself on the scale of the situation. I know the Minister is a decent person, and if he has the information we have he must find it very difficult to put his head on the pillow at night. People are being discharged from...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Nov 2014)

Colm Keaveney: This is an administrative decision, directly from the Minister, to them to slow it down. It is true. The Minister is the author of this decision. It has his fingerprints.