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- Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: Language learning is a rewarding experience for children and students and can lead to a lifetime of engagement both culturally and professionally. A well-educated multilingual population is a key incentive for international business to choose Ireland as a base for operations. Will the Minister comment on the number of schools that have to date engaged with her Department on the Say Yes to...
- Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: I thank the Minister for her response and work in this area. The introduction of Say Yes to Languages has been a positive step right across the school community. Allowing pupils, teachers, parents and guardians to learn a modern foreign language promotes inclusivity and understanding of diverse cultures, so it is a positive step. It also encourages schools to take up the scheme. The...
- Other Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: I again thank the Minister for her response. It is a really positive scheme that should be commended. I wish to inquire around the selection process. Applications closed, as the Minister outlined, on 12 May. It was also mentioned that participation is not guaranteed to all applying schools and that a panel will evaluate applications based on specific criteria. I ask the Minister to...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: It is crucial that we take immediate action to expand the role of pharmacists within our healthcare system. The challenges faced by many individuals accessing GP services are well documented and often prove to be a significant hurdle. The shortage of GPs, particularly in rural areas like my own, compounds this issue. To address the situation, I ask that the Government conduct a...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Meetings (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: 13. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the matters discussed at his latest meeting with EU counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21039/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: 32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures he is taking to improve Ireland’s cybersecurity strength in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21040/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the results for Leaving Cert 2023 will be issued; what the difficulty is with giving students a date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22877/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (16 May 2023)
Alan Dillon: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what policy measures are in place in primary and secondary schools for the prevention of obesity among young people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22876/23]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: I welcome our guests and wish Mr. Gloster the best of luck in his new role. I look forward to working with him, as I have done as a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Staying on the topic of the NTPF, today, I read about 70 patients in a Cork nursing home who are facing an uncertain future, after being informed that the nursing...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: Does the HSE recognise the disparity in weekly funding rates between the NTPF rates and the rates of what the HSE pays its own nursing homes?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: How is the HSE going to deal with the potential influx of residents from private nursing homes into public ones due to the withdrawal of some of these homes from the fair deal scheme? Up to 20 have closed to date. Is that not a real concern? Is there capacity within the public system at the minute?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: What current measures are being taken? Have any positive measures been taken? We listen to private nursing homes and they continue to see the disparities. It is not just in Cork, but in every region across the country.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: I do not mean any disrespect to Mr. Gloster, who I know has been in this role for only a few months. Mr. Mulvany knows the situation because the concerns around private nursing homes, the operation of them and the financial burden associated with that has been raised at meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health. Again, we are here today...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: Are there plans to review the disparity in the NTPF rates process to address the claims of lower rates for certain providers?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: Can we get clarification on that, Mr. Flood?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: Can the representatives of the Department outline what its supervisory role is with the NTPF, and the extent to which the Department engages with it in relation to these key issues?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: Nursing homes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: That still does not address the core issue around the disparities in regard to the lower rates being offered to private nursing homes compared with public. Again, we are so reliant on the private sector that we see time and again that they are actually engaging with public representatives in addressing the issue. We are not listening to the challenges they are facing. I would like to get...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: Another issue I wish to raise relates to those Ukrainians who have had access to medical cards. There is a lack of available GPs to support the general medical card scheme. How is the HSE addressing the shortage in regard to access to GP services throughout the country in this respect?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health (11 May 2023) Alan Dillon: By how much has that increased?