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Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service 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 (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As the Deputy's question relates to a service issue, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: The Ombudsman’s Report ‘Wasted Lives’ looks at the appropriateness of the placement of people under 65 in nursing homes. We know that nursing homes are an appropriate care option where the person concerned has a clinically assessed complex medical and social care requirement which cannot be supported in the person’s home. However, for some people under the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: The Ombudsman’s Report ‘Wasted Lives’ looks at the appropriateness of the placement of people under 65 in nursing homes. We know that nursing homes are an appropriate care option where the person concerned has a clinically assessed complex medical and social care requirement which cannot be supported in the person’s home. However, for some people under the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 675 and 677 together. As these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (8 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: The Motorised Transport Grant was an administrative scheme established in 1968. It was administered by the Health Service Executive (HSE) and operated as a means-tested grant to assist persons with severe disabilities with the purchase or adaptation of a car, where that car was essential to retain employment. The maximum grant, payable once to an individual in any three-year period was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Deputy for giving me the opportunity to bring the House up to date. The report, The Cost of Disability in Ireland, was commissioned by the Minister for Social Protection and prepared by Indecon International Research Economists. It was published in December 2021 and provides importance evidence as to the additional costs that people with disability face in their day-to-day...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: If the Deputy were to ask me what is happening right now, I would say that all of the Departments are looking at the cost of disability. She has quite rightly identified that the extra costs faced by people with a disability vary depending on the disability. However, there is a standard of living cost as well. A person who has a prosthetic may face extra costs of €20,000, depending...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: With regard to the Housing for All strategy, there will, of course, be a stakeholder group involved. Persons with a disability will be at the total and utter centre of that. It is they who will be telling us about universal design, that is, design that ensure that the social housing stock we develop will meet the changing needs of those who will come in and out of those properties....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: -----primary medical certificates, I convened a group on that issue for the first time since 2017. This included officials from the Department of Finance, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Department of Health and the HSE. I got everybody around the table because, as we all know, eligibility for the certificate is far too narrow. That work is progressing.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: This Government is committed to providing services and supports for people with disabilities which will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they choose, and enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: I propose to take Questions Nos. 424 and 425 together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (3 Feb 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.