Results 481-500 of 1,371 for speaker:Máire Hoctor
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (2 Oct 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The existing subvention scheme is governed by the Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Act 2007. Under the Act, the maximum amount for basic subvention is â¬300 per week. The Act also provides for enhanced subvention to be paid. However, there is no maximum amount set for enhanced subvention. The amount paid is at the discretion of the HSE. It varies according to the cost of care and is...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (2 Oct 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Both the Minister for Health and Children and I are fully committed to introducing the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme in 2009. The Minister expects to publish the Bill within the next two weeks or so and to bring it before the Houses of the Oireachtas for debate in this Dáil session. The legislation required in order to introduce the Scheme is complex and has involved careful drafting in...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (2 Oct 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Home Care Packages form a key component of the Government's strategy of supporting older people to live at home and in their communities for as long as possible. Home Care Packages are an additional support over and above mainstream community services and are designed to enhance rather than replace existing home support services. The Initiative was formally introduced by the Government in...
- Written Answers — Housing Aid for the Elderly: Housing Aid for the Elderly (2 Oct 2008)
Máire Hoctor: North Tipperary County Council has received 47 applications under the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability, 35 applications under the Mobility Aids Grant Scheme and 190 applications under the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme since their introduction on 1 November 2007. A combined capital allocation of â¬1,571,700 was made to North Tipperary County Council in May 2008, for...
- Order of Business (2 Oct 2008)
Máire Hoctor: There is no matching funding.
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (1 Oct 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Home Care Packages form a key component of the Government's strategy of supporting older people to live at home and in their communities for as long as possible. In this context, funding of â¬120 million was allocated to the Health Service Executive over the years 2006-8 inclusive to underpin this initiative. The Deputy will appreciate that operational responsibility for the management and...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Both the Minister for Health and Children and I are fully committed to introducing the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme in 2009. The legislation required in order to introduce the Scheme is complex and has involved careful drafting in order to ensure that the interests of older people requiring residential care are fully protected. The Minister expects to bring the Bill before the Houses of...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Final Report from the Commission of Investigation, established to investigate the management, operation and supervision of the former Leas Cross Nursing Home was due to be completed and submitted to the Minister for Health and Children earlier this month. The Sole Member to the Commission recently advised that this report would not be completed within the time originally envisaged. He...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: There are no plans at present to licence nursing agencies providing home-based care or home help providers. With regard to private health care facilities, the present standards for nursing homes are set out in the Care and Welfare Regulations and the Health Service Executive (HSE) inspects private nursing homes on the basis of these standards. Earlier this year, the Health Information and...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The National Treatment Purchase Fund's (NTPF) role under the proposed Nursing Homes Support Scheme is not to identify suitable nursing homes for individual persons. Under the new scheme, NTPF will negotiate prices for long-term care with private nursing home owners on behalf of the State. Where nursing homes agree prices for the purposes of the scheme with the NTPF, the NTPF will recommend...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Both the Minister for Health and Children and I are fully committed to introducing the new Nursing Homes Support Scheme in 2009. The legislation required in order to introduce the Scheme is complex and has involved careful drafting in order to ensure that the interests of older people requiring residential care are fully protected. However, the principles of the scheme remain the same as...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Government has committed very significant investment in recent years to develop both community-based and residential services for older people. Additional funding of just over â¬400 million was provided under Budgets 2006 and 2007, of which â¬190 million was ear-marked for community-based services such as Homecare Packages, Home-Helps, Day Care, Respite and Meals on Wheels. In this...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: In 2006, the HSE, in conjunction with Prospectus, undertook a Needs Assessment of bed capacity requirements in the areas of long-stay, dementia-specific and respite care beds for the period 2006-2036. This report was submitted to the Department of Health and Children in September 2006. It indicated, among other issues, the uneven distribution of beds between and within regions. In...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The importance this Government attaches to the continued development of community-based services for older persons is reflected in the unprecedented levels of funding given to this sector in recent years. In 2006 and 2007, just over â¬400 million was provided to enhance service developments across the older persons sector. Of this specific investment of â¬110 million over those years has...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...
- Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The over-arching policy in relation to older people is to support them insofar as possible to live at home and in their own communities. The Home Help Service, delivered by or on behalf of the Health Service Executive (HSE), is therefore a core community service enabling people to remain at home, where appropriate, who otherwise might need to be cared for in long-term residential care. It...
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: A response to the Parliamentary Question referred to has issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Responsibility for funding a range of agencies dealing with services for older people rests with the Health Service Executive. Applications for funding for the purposes described by the Deputy would, in the first instance, be a matter for consideration by the Executive. In addition, the Office for Older People intends to progress the Strategy on Positive Ageing. Research needs and how to...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: The Department requested that the Health Service Executive contact the Deputy directly on this matter. I am informed by the Executive that an explanation together with an apology issued to the Deputy on 26th September.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (30 Sep 2008)
Máire Hoctor: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter...