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- Written Answers — Residential Care Standards: Residential Care Standards (19 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: I propose to take Questions Nos. 28 and 75 together. My colleague the Minister for Health and Children has, this week, approved the national standards for all residential care settings for older people under section 10(2) of the Health Act, 2007. The approval has been conveyed to the Health Information and Quality Authority and the Standards will be formally published and launched shortly....
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2009 sets out the HSE's plan for the management and configuration of public long-term residential care services during 2009. As part of this plan, it will provide for a number of additional and replacement long-term residential care beds over the course of 2009. The latest information from the HSE indicates that 704 additional beds and 492...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The Home Help Service is a well established and successful component of the overall strategy to enable older people to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Significant funding has been provided to the Health Service Executive in recent years for the expansion of this service. As the Executive has operational responsibility for the management and delivery of the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The Home Help Service is a well established and successful component of the overall strategy to enable older people to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Significant funding has been provided to the Health Service Executive in recent years for the expansion of this service. As the Executive has operational responsibility for the management and delivery of the...
- Hospital Services. (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The key priority for the Government and the Health Service Executive in dealing with serious budgetary pressures on the health services is to minimise the effect on services for patients to the greatest degree possible. The HSE is facing financial pressures arising in a large degree from the broader economic situation, an increase in the number of medical cards and lower receipts from the...
- Human Trafficking. (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: On behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, I thank the Deputy for raising this matter on the Adjournment. I assure him that I share his concern and that of all right thinking people that the heinous crime of human trafficking should be tackled effectively and that suspected victims of human trafficking should be helped and treated appropriately. The Criminal Law (Human...
- Human Trafficking. (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: Equally it is not appropriate to comment in detail on the facts of any individual case, involving as it would disclosing sensitive personal information. I can say that the Minister has been informed by the Garda SÃochána that in this case, as in every case of potential human trafficking made known to them, all the information was carefully assessed in determining if there were reasonable...
- Human Trafficking. (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The Department will continue to develop and adapt procedures in light of experience in dealing with such cases. The Department recognises the valuable contribution being made by both State and non-governmental organisations in tackling, together, the scourge of human trafficking.
- Asgard II. (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea. I thank Deputies Deenihan and Coveney for raising the matter. Yesterday, the Minister announced he had accepted the recommendation from the board of Coiste An Asgard on the possibility of salvaging the sail-training vessel Asgard II. The board's unanimous recommendation was that a salvage...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (24 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Act 2007 allows for enhanced subvention to be paid. However, there is no maximum amount set for enhanced subvention. The amount paid is at the discretion of the Health Service Executive (HSE) and will vary depending on the following criteria: the assessed means of the applicant, the cost of care in the individual case compared to the level of fees in...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (25 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Feb 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Mar 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (3 Mar 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (3 Mar 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (4 Mar 2009)
Máire Hoctor: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (5 Mar 2009)
Máire Hoctor: The cost of private nursing homes is set by the nursing home and is not determined by the Department. The Health Service Executive can pay an approved subvention to the nursing home of the applicants' choice and the payment of the balance of the nursing home fee is a matter between the applicant and the nursing home under the contract of care agreed between these parties. The existing...
- Hospital Services. (10 Mar 2009)
Máire Hoctor: I will reply to this Adjournment matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. Orthopaedic services for the Cork area are provided from the Cork University Hospital group. The division of trauma and orthopaedics is made up of the orthopaedic department at Cork University Hospital and St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital. Cork University Hospital provides...