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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 44. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the additional 1 million home help hours promised in budget 2020 that will be allocated to the north Cork area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48876/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I ask the Minister, in light of the additional home help hours promised in budget 2020, what amount will be allocated to the north Cork area, which is starved of resources for home help hours at present. How many extra hours can we expect in the north Cork region in 2020?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. He mentioned 2019 to 2020. I understand that the additional hours in the budget are for 2020. If he is true to his reply, no extra home help hours are becoming available. We are into the last five weeks of this year and there is a crisis as people wait for home help hours. Families are waiting for home help packages and are making decisions...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I acknowledge what the Minister and Minister of State have said on the particular case. I will continue to raise this in any forum that I can to try to get a result for that particular person and the family. The wider issue is that it is almost as if we are working in silos. The home help budget and acute hospital care budget are there. If we were able to manage it better to try to make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Accommodation Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: That is great generosity of spirit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest meeting on the Dublin inner city forum. [45816/19]

Fiscal Responsibility (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage (26 Nov 2019)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I raise the issue of insurance. Many small and medium size business have been in contact with me in recent years and we have raised many issues here. However, in the last period, they are very concerned about this and have indicated they will cease to operate because they cannot get insurance or the premiums are astronomical and escalating out of their reach. I ask the Taoiseach what the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (26 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the proposed VAT rate for food supplements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48558/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I am glad to see that my colleague, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, is here. I noticed that the antennae went up straightaway when Kanturk was mentioned. The Minister of State might have a word with his ministerial colleague about this application. He said the selection of individual projects had regard to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this matter. Before I go into it, I am also aware of somebody in the National Rehabilitation Hospital who is awaiting the provision of funding for a homecare package. It is very frustrating, to say the least. We will return to this issue at a later date. An application has been made via Cork County Council on behalf of...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I welcome to the Public Gallery Daniel Philpott, a transition year student from Presentation Brothers College in Cork who is here on work experience for the week. His people hail from Kanturk. I wish him the best of luck. Much has been said about mental health in the last while. The issue is now very much to the fore and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: Last week I raised the issue of a psychiatrist for the deaf community in the southern region. The Minister for Health was in the Chamber and confirmed that he would come back to me within a day or so, but we have heard nothing since. This is outstanding for a long time. Many people within the deaf community and their families have been in contact with me. We have been trying to resolve...

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: The overcrowding in hospitals is causing massive issues but the Minister, the HSE and the Department have to look at where money can be saved. I have raised an issue privately with the Minister in recent weeks. I gave him a file on it. We have still not got any response. Families of patients are being fobbed off. They want to be able to bring their family member home and are committed to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I draw the Government's attention to the inability of people with intellectual disabilities to get respite care throughout the country, not least in County Cork. They seek respite care throughout the year, whereas some people have been given only two or three weekends in the course of 2019. There was a commitment for more money to be invested in respite care in 2019 but it has not been...

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputy Pringle and his group for bringing forward the motion. I welcome the visitors to the Gallery. This is a very important motion. A whole raft of issues around it need to be discussed. Deputy Rabbitte referred to a whole-of-government approach to this issue. She mentioned the amount of money being spent on people who could live independently if personal assistance hours, home...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department plays in the roll-out of the Climate Action Plan 2019. [46662/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: Following on from Deputy Butler's question and the Taoiseach's reply, and in light of a question I raised here some weeks ago on home help, I refer to a patient who has been trying to get some home help in order to be discharged from the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire in recent weeks. The HSE is not engaging with the family in the context of putting a home care...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had meetings with his officials recently to discuss third level policy funding. [45813/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new primary school in Kanturk, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47389/19]