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Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Sure, and I acknowledge that, too.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome that. Could the Minister raise a point for me? I am concerned. I understand why this is happening, I understand the points she is making, I support what the Government is doing and I recognise that the difficulties in creating accommodations for 70,000 people in such a short space of time are phenomenal. Yet, that does not get away from the fact that mothers with young children...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: It was a former Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld, describing what the United Nations was about, who said it was not created in order to bring us to heaven but in order to save us from hell. If there is one thing clear from my constituents, it is that the Middle East is in absolute hell right now. What people in my constituency want is for the war to end and for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a full update from the Road Safety Authority on the need to progress a new temporary or permanent driving test centre for Drogheda, County Louth, the largest town in Ireland; if, considering the unacceptable driving test wait times in the Louth and east Meath area, he will seek full clarification on the list of sites which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to embed ageing in place options for older people into the planning system, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2465/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 554. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the programme for Government commitment to ensure that older people who are at greater risk of fuel poverty and the respiratory illnesses associated with air pollution be prioritised in climate action and climate-mitigation plans, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2464/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progression and the timeline for the establishment of a commission on care for older people and the establishment of a commissioner for ageing and older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2454/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 571. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the expansion of community-based care, bringing it closer to home, in line with the Sláintecare Implementation plan since the establishment of the current Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2455/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 572. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop and increase access to talk therapies and improve access to specialist expertise, when it is required, in line with Sharing the Vision – a Mental Health Policy for Everyone, across each of the CHO areas, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Isolation (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 573. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a plan aimed at tackling loneliness and isolation, particularly among older people, as outlined in the Roadmap for Social Inclusion, across each of the CHO areas, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2457/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 574. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to further support the nursing homes support scheme (the fair deal) to provide assistance when staying at home may no longer be an option, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2458/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 575. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that no nursing homes support scheme resident is charged for services they do not use, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2459/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 576. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that the best possible safeguards are in place to protect our friends and family in nursing homes, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2460/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 577. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to increase the number of specialist palliative care beds countrywide over the five years of government, ensuring that there will be a hospice serving every region in the country, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2461/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 578. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to support community specialist palliative home care teams in all HSE areas, fund designated homecare packages, and resource specialist palliative care provided in hospices, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 579. To ask the Minister for Health to provide on update on the Programme for Government commitment to increase resources for the children’s palliative care programme since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 580. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken by his Department to deliver transgender health services in Ireland; if his Department has considered the 'informed consent' model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2466/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the expected timelines on the establishment of a new statutory home support scheme; how he plans to scope and plan for such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (23 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 582. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a progress update on the expansion of community intervention teams to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and to support the timely discharge of patients to their homes, since the establishment of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2473/24]