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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers removed or frozen at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Athy, County Kildare, as a result of the HSE CEO's recent memorandum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52628/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: This Government's stated intention to legislate to remove the triple lock and the protection it affords the members of our Defence Forces beggars belief. Since 1958, Ireland's Defence Forces have proudly fulfilled a peacekeeping role. They have had a proud, unbroken peacekeeping service record, from the Congo to Kosovo to Mali and elsewhere. At present, Defence Forces personnel are serving...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: The Taoiseach previously committed to engaging with all relevant stakeholders, including advocacy groups, families of those affected and front-line care workers, on the forthcoming inquiry into Covid-19. In the media, I see the Government has cleared the terms of reference for the inquiry. However, from my engagement with stakeholders such as Care Champions and others, I am aware they have...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank People Before Profit for putting forward this motion. I have an overwhelming sense of déjà vutoday. Last week, I spoke passionately on the same issue during Private Members' business. Palestinians in Gaza have been subject to occupation and oppression for decades. Multiple generations of men, women and children have been born into and subjected to torture and systematic,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered extending the mortgage-to-rent scheme to require vulture funds which seek repossession of family homes to offer long-term tenancies as an option for those borrowers in arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51558/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, with regard to applications for carer’s allowance benefit, she will clarify the reason people already in receipt of another social welfare payment are cut off from receiving that payment immediately from the date of their application for the carer’s allowance, as carer’s allowance applications are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 229. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the precise terms and conditions applying to the new HSE policy on discharging elderly patients from hospitals to nursing homes; and if the elderly person’s (and their family’s) wishes will be taken into account where the transfer place may be clinically appropriate, but may not be preferable or convenient to the elderly person or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 230. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the precise terms and conditions applying to the new HSE policy on discharging elderly patients from hospitals to nursing homes; and if the elderly person’s (and their family’s) wishes will be taken into account where the transfer place may be clinically appropriate, but may not be preferable or convenient to the elderly person or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 231. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the saxenda injection and the prescription/testing process for same, to clarify what procedural/approval procedures are in place for GPs/primary care centres with regard to test analyses/approval of the suitability of possible candidates for injection of the drug saxenda; if a consultation process with all doctors in a GPs/primary care centre...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 232. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on primary healthcare nursing staff levels and numbers of patients covered, including public health nurses, in the south Kildare area, with particular emphasis on rural areas, the distances required to be covered by each PHN, and the individual PHN’s ability to attend to rural patients; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 233. To ask the Minister for Health his views on GP services in the south Kildare area, the availability of those services generally and the length of time it is taking for those people trying to source and secure GP services in south Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51556/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the matter of a young person (details supplied). [51557/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of job offers which have been withdrawn as a result of memorandums (details supplied), by grade, for Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, in tabular form; the number of headcount posts; and the WTE to which these relate. [51559/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts removed from profile as a result of memorandums (details supplied), by grade, for CHO7, in tabular form; the number of headcount posts and the WTE to which these relate; the number which were new posts; the number which were replacement posts or vacant posts; and the number which were related to absence/leave cover. [51560/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the proposed transfer of 68 elderly residents from units in Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin, to Bartra nursing home in Clondalkin, he will clarify the reason 68 vulnerable elderly residents in Cherry Orchard Hospital (many in receipt of palliative/end of life care or with advanced cognitive issues) have, in November last, received urgent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the HSE’s proposed moving of 68 very vulnerable residents with complex care needs from Cherry Orchard Hospital to an alternative nursing home in Clondalkin, he will clarify how the decision to transfer them was made, in the absence of consultation with either residents affected or their families; if any consideration was taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 239. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the transfer of 68 very vulnerable elderly and frail residents from Cherry Orchard Hospital on foot of an ‘urgent evacuation’, he will clarify if he or his Department were aware that the HSE was made fully aware by HIQA of the issues surrounding the current ‘urgent evacuation’, at the end of June 2021, yet no...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (22 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 240. To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to the ‘urgent evacuation’ of 68 vulnerable residents from Cherry Orchard Hospital, he will explain in detail, giving dates, of when the agreement between the HSE and Bartra to accept transfer of the 68 residents, specifically with reference to the date of the notice of that transfer as given, inconsistently, to the affected...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: The Government's mismanagement of the health budget is no secret but mismanagement on a scale that forces the CEO of the HSE to escalate the embargo on recruitment, withdraw job offers and scrap more than 7,000 essential front-line posts is beyond belief. This is beyond disastrous when the HSE is already facing unprecedented staff shortages in all sectors, affecting its ability to provide...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing this motion and I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in support of it. Most, if not all, of us are horrified by the devastation inflicted by the Israeli Government on the people of Gaza in recent weeks. Gaza is now a graveyard with men, women, children, old people and disabled buried under the remains of Gaza city. We have Israeli bombs...