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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (19 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: The safety and protection of vulnerable people in the care of the State is paramount. As the Deputy will be aware, a number of important steps have been taken in recent years to strengthen the protection afforded to vulnerable and adults in the States’s day care and residential care settings. Within the health sector specifically, the HSE published its national safeguarding policy and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: The issue raised by the Deputy has been brought to our attention on numerous occasions by people who are frustrated because they feel they could care for their family members at home, thereby sparing the State the cost of a nursing home bed or a fair deal bed. They want to know why they cannot get an equivalent amount of financial support in cash. Such financial supports are available in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: As the Deputy will appreciate, the new scheme is in its very early stages. It is in its infancy. We have just completed the public consultation process and we are starting to design the scheme. All of those issues will be considered. We cannot pre-empt that consideration by jumping ahead and saying we will discourage people from trying to avoid being discharged by providing a financial...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: Absolutely. I assure the Deputy that it will be considered very closely in the design of the new scheme. I would like to respond to a couple of other questions while I have the floor. I do not have an answer to Deputy O'Reilly's very specific question about the €23.20 average cost of home care. Mr. O'Brien has already said that the Deputy will get a detailed answer to that question...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Funding (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: I am pleased to say that overall funding for services for older people will increase in 2018. We are in a position to further strengthen supports for our older people, particularly to facilitate speedier discharge from acute hospitals over the winter period. The quantum of service to be provided will be outlined in the Health Service Executive's National Service Plan for 2018, which is...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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 (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: The work of the Taskforce is now complete. Subject to Government approval of its recommendations, the intention is to launch and publish the Taskforce report in November. The launch will be supported with info-graphics targeted at children and young people that will reflect the themes emerging. These Info-graphics will be launched on the various task force member websites and through media...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: Budget 2018 provided significant additional funding for mental health, which means that HSE funding for this key care programme will increase from around €853 million in 2017 to €912 million next year. New service initiatives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health services are being progressed in the context of finalising both the overall HSE Service Plan 2018, and the more...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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 (18 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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: Budget 2018 (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: Budget 2018 made allowance for an additional €59 million for Mental Health Services for 2018. €35 million is made up of the €20 million continuing cost in 2018 of developments initiated in 2017, combined with a further €15 million for further new developments. €24 million will fund pay-related costs. In addition, the Minister for Health has committed to a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 287 and 288 together. As these are service matters I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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: General Practitioner Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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: Emergency Departments Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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 Data (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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 Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: 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 Funding (17 Oct 2017)
Jim Daly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.