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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Those figures are meaningless.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 4. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new home care tender, following an offer of €31 being issued to providers on 25 May 2023; if this offer is based on the current living wage of €13.85 per hour; the details of the other elements of this offer; how this figure was arrived at; the means by which travel expenses will be paid; the rationale for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: A related topic is the question of home care. There is a crisis in home care. While the HSE provides home care with staff with proper pay and conditions, the reality is that in much of the country that essential service has been outsourced to the private sector. The people working in those services are at a serious disadvantage to those who are employed by the HSE. What are the various...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: I would like some specifics. I set those out in the question. When the Minister of State talks about the living wage, is that €13.85 per hour, which is the current living wage? What arrangements are in place for increases to that living wage? There is a system for determining that and it is increased on an annual basis. Will the contract cover those increases? I would like...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry, mileage.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: My question is about mileage.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Home Care Packages (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That is really disappointing. In the context of us having a crisis in home care at the moment, does the Minister of State realise 6,500 people, mainly older people have been approved for home care but services are not being provided to them? We were discussing earlier the problems of people inappropriately arriving at hospital emergency departments. A major element of that relates to older...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend section 9 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 in the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022, which is currently before the Houses of the Oireachtas to provide for a criminal offence of coercive control similar to but more expanded to that provided in section 39 of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the sites being considered for the new surgical hub in north Dublin; the timeline he is working towards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the expected delivery date for each of the six surgical hubs, announced on 26 May 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26857/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Health (Adult Safeguarding) Bill 2017; the rational for this Bill not being developed by his Department, given that adult safeguarding is much broader than the health sector; his views on a cross-departmental and inter-agency approach, as well as a whole of society approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27019/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to assist where persons are concerned with another person’s serious self-neglect which may be a danger to themselves or others and where the HSE safeguarding and protect teams confirm that they do not have a role in safeguarding if there is no third-party causing harm to the person in question (details supplied); who has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the contact arrangements that are in place, outside of the hours 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday, for emergency safeguarding services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27023/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Jun 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a review (details supplied) which examined the governance arrangements around the HSEs drug pricing and reimbursement process; if the implementation group has been established; the timeline this group is working towards to progress the implementation of the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27026/23]

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: That land was sold to a developer.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: It is not an excuse.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Last weekend we learned that the Taoiseach's housing policy priority is homeownership. That is certainly news to me and to most people because Fine Gael's tenure in government has proven otherwise. Of course, for much of that time Fine Gael's failed policies were supported by the Minister's party. Since 2011 Fine Gael has driven a coach and four through our planning system, incentivised...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Does he know how many permissions were granted for houses last year? What percentage of the planning permissions were for houses? It was a derisory 2%. Only 2% of all housing planning permissions in Dublin last year were for actual houses. A total of 6,290 permissions were granted but only 136 of those were for houses. There were 136 permissions for houses in the entire Dublin city area....

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: -----and therefore almost none to buy. Of course, all of this has happened not by accident but by design. That is why, as far as so many people are concerned, the Taoiseach's professed belief in homeownership rings utterly hollow. A 2021 Dublin Inquirerreport revealed that between 2018 and 2020 more than half of homes granted planning permission in Dublin city were build-to-rent units and...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: Says the biggest landlord in the Dáil.