Results 2,961-2,980 of 11,402 for speaker:Mary Butler
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (27 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (27 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: Funding to support people to access services in the sector continues to be provided in line with the long-established statutory mechanisms under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. This is the mechanism established by the Oireachtas to provide for the processes relating to funding under the NHSS and the negotiation of prices for services for private and voluntary providers with the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, in early 2016, a capital programme for older persons' residential centres was developed by the Government to replace, upgrade and refurbish care facilities at approximately 90 locations throughout the country, and this is happening all over the length and breadth of the country. The Deputy will be aware that one is under way in Clonmel, with a new...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: -----comprising 60 beds, and also a crisis home for mental health patients with another ten-bed unit-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: If the Deputy will please allow me to answer, he referred to the unit in St. Brigid's hospital in Carrick-on-Suir having closed but he forgot to mention that 24 people are now delivering services in St. Brigid's.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: In regard to what the Deputy raised, I think he is missing the point. Under the capital plan, a new community nursing unit, CNU, is going to be built in Cashel. If HSE estates decide the current site that was recently identified is no longer suitable, that is completely within its remit. I cannot discuss any new site at the moment because it is commercially sensitive-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: -----but to reassure the Deputy, a new community nursing unit with 60 beds is being developed for Cashel, County Tipperary.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: The Deputy is quite right. In the last budget, the Government provided €750,000 from the mental health budget to support counselling psychologists. As we know, clinical psychologists were already funded but counselling psychologists and educational psychologists were not. When I met with the Psychologists Association of Ireland, it pointed that out. Under my remit as Minster of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: That is what I have decided to do. We are working with the psychologists, Trinity College Dublin and the HSE to work out the details.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Research and Development (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: The Department of Health provides annual financial support to the Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI). DRNI, by supporting multidisciplinary collaborative research and knowledge exchange, is dedicated to the enhancement of the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of dementia and neurodegeneration, the effectiveness of different models of care and the policy changes required to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 167 and 168 together. As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (26 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I would like to thank Deputy Shortall for her questions on capacity in public nursing homes. I have been informed by the HSE that they will require additional time to gather and relay the information with regards to the Deputy's queries. I have asked the HSE to collate the details sought by Deputy Shortall and I will forward a comprehensive reply addressing all queries raised to the Deputy...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I acknowledge how important the support of partners is to women throughout their pregnancy journey. It is also important that the partners be present as much as possible. The Deputy might have hit the nail on the head when she talked about some of the older buildings and some of the risk assessments. It is really important that we have evidence-based decision-making regarding restrictions....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (25 Apr 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. I know it has been an issue of concern for women and their families. I fully appreciate that limitations on partners accessing maternity services have been very difficult for everyone over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. That is why I was surprised earlier when I read the topic to which I was to respond this evening. I was not...