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Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the estimated annual cost of increasing the weekly disability allowance by €20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12576/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the number of persons currently availing of the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12577/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Wage Subsidy Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the amount of money allocated to employability services; the number of persons availing of these services; the estimated annual cost of expanding the employability service to provide places for an additional 1,000 persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12578/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on nursing home care in 2015 and 2016; the amount expected to be spent in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12581/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in nursing home care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12582/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing an additional 100 nursing home beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12583/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on home help and home care packages in 2016; the amount ring-fenced for 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently availing of home care supports; the number who meet the criteria for home care supports who have been refused them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing home help hours and home care packages by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12586/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personal assistant hours currently provided by the State; the associated cost; the estimated cost over one year of increasing personal assistant hours by 500,000 hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12587/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 230. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the PAS waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12588/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults currently on waiting lists to be assessed by speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12589/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on waiting lists to be assessed by speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12590/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 233. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of employing an additional 250 speech and language therapists, 100 occupational therapists, 100 physiotherapists and 150 psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12591/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 234. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of providing respite care services; the estimated cost of increasing respite care services by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12592/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost and make up of a community neuro-rehabilitation team and all supports required for the team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12593/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost and make up of a dedicated acquired brain injury transitional unit and intensive rehab post acute in order to enable persons to return home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made on implementing the Time to Move on from Congregated Settings - A Strategy for Community Inclusion since the publication of this strategy; the number of persons with disabilities that lived in congregated settings that have been moved to integrated mainstream settings; the amount of funding being allocated for the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Fleet (9 Mar 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 344. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of Bus Éireann coaches that are wheelchair accessible; the amount of funding provided for the programme of accessibility improvement grants to upgrade existing public transport infrastructure and facilities; the way this is progressing; the estimated cost of making all public transport wheelchair accessible; and if...