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Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: I do not think they do. The standard HRB forms where they collect the data are still the same and that was not on those forms. I will ask that question and see if there is any way to get it added to that.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: When it was brought up, that brought me back there and I realised that question was never asked.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: Maybe that is Dr. Healy's next research piece.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: As TDs, we are resources, so use as resources. Our door is always open. The witnesses are pushing an open door when it comes to me, so they should come to me.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 24. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date by the productivity and savings task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39161/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: In 2020 we had a scandalous 9,689 children on waiting lists for primary care psychology. Fast forward to 2024 and we now have whopping 18,368 children waiting. This is the Minister's legacy. It is a legacy of heartbreak and children being denied every opportunity to reach their full potential. Sinn Féin has a plan to resolve this. We have an action plan for mental health. We have...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: This is my fifth time responding to a mental health budget. While the Minister of State can mention record budgets all she wants, people want results and I will talk about results. I am going to talk about the Government's legacy in mental health after five years. When it took office, 2,115 children were waiting for CAMHS appointments. Today that figure stands at 3,681, a 74% increase on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 48. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting times for services in community disability network teams in Dublin mid-west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the OPW of providing dog kennels in Garda dog handlers' homes, per kennel, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39002/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the OPW of providing electrical vehicle charging points in Garda stations in the Dublin metropolitan region, per station, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 518. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the pending sale of a nursing home (details supplied) to a for-profit private care provider, the efforts his Department, the older persons’ portfolio, and their Ministers, make to secure the facility as a high-quality, State-run public facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 519. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the lack of publicly funded older persons’ beds, the measures he has taken in his tenure as a Minister to ensure that private homes in crisis going for sale are secured by the State, in order that residents are not paying the price for State policy failures. [39056/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 520. To ask the Minister for Health to provide copies of all correspondence from his office to show the actions that were taken to secure a nursing home (details supplied) as a State-run facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39057/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 521. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the high death toll in nursing homes (details supplied), the steps he has taken by way of research to investigate the impact of transfer trauma on residents in these facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39058/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 546. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the TrakCare system in the National Forensic Mental Health Service; to report on the improvement to services as a result of its use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39153/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (1 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: 547. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the integrated community case management system that was to be developed for services such as primary care; the cost of this system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39154/24]

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: We support this Bill because it provides for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety. We need to bring the health service into the 21st century in order to improve productivity, efficiency and value for money and properly hold the system to account. It is 2024, and the fact we do not have an integrated IT system across the HSE is a damning...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 88. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of parents that have put in a complaint that their child did not receive an assessment of needs in a timely manner; the number upheld in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37976/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to general inpatient hospital wards with a primary diagnosis of mental health difficulties in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the average length of time children spent in general wards with this diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38131/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to general inpatient hospital wards with a primary diagnosis of mental health difficulties in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the average length of time children spent in general wards with this diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38131/24]