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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jul 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: Departmental Funding (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: The Patient Advocacy Service (PAS) provides support to people of all ages, including older persons, who wish to make a complaint about the care they have received in Public Acute Hospitals or Nursing Homes. PAS also supports people in the aftermath of patient safety incidents. PAS is a National Service with a National Phone line which is available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: Fair Deal was designed to protect and support vulnerable older people, to ensure equal access to nursing home care based on what they could afford. This gives certainty to people and families. Government funding for Fair Deal is to support vulnerable older people at a time in their lives where full-time care is essential. Overall, €1.4 billion of the total Health Budget was allocated...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: The Social Care, Mental Health, Drugs Policy and Unscheduled Care Policy Division spans issues relating to older people, palliative care, dementia and carers, mental health services, people who use drugs, inclusion health and access to urgent and emergency care. The divisional remit is to develop policy and underlying legislation as required, to ensure the provision of high quality health and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: Overall policy on assisted decision-making is vested in the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and decisions in relation to the preparation of codes of practice under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 ("the 2015 Act") are a matter in the first instance for the Director of the Decision Support Service (DSS) under section 103 of the Act. I have...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: As these are operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: As these are operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: As these are operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: As these are operational matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: Fair Deal was designed to protect and support vulnerable older people, to ensure equal access to nursing home care based on what they could afford. This gives certainty to people and families. Government funding for Fair Deal is to support vulnerable older people at a time in their lives where full-time care is essential. Options to provide additional support to nursing homes are being...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jul 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 (11 Jul 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 (11 Jul 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 (11 Jul 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: Health Services Staff (11 Jul 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: Mental Health Services (11 Jul 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.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (6 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for her passion. Development of a high-quality CAMHS service nationally, in line with Sharing the Vision, the HSE service plan and other related initiatives, is a priority for me and the Government. This year, €137 million will be spent on CAMHS and €80 million will be spent on organisations such as Jigsaw, MyMind, SpunOut, Pieta and others, to support...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (6 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for the question. The development of a high-quality mid-west CAMHS has been a key priority and focus for mid-west community healthcare in recent years. I cannot agree when the Deputy says CAMHS are in crisis. There might be issues with location, premises and space but there are 21,000 children in the support of CAMHS as I speak. There were 225,000 appointments last year...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget Process (6 Jul 2023)
Mary Butler: The pre-budget submission to which the Deputy is referring is the Alzheimer Society of Ireland's 2024 pre-budget submission. The Government is committed to ensuring that those living with dementia have access to the right services and supports to help them to live well in their communities, and has prioritised much-needed investment in dementia over the past three budgets. We have...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Jul 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.