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Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The National Roads Authority is suggesting having isolated and disconnected infrastructure is not a good idea. I imagine the authority is right, but I am equally certain that the Deputy is right. The proposed amendment to the roads Act would have a significant impact. All of the points raised by the Deputy are valid. I am pleased that the Minister for Finance has joined us because Adare...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The neurological strategy is being rolled out. The one point on which I do not agree with the Deputy concerns the €23 million to which he referred. We must ensure older people have a choice in where they stay. A great number have expressed a preference to stay at home or, failing that, in their own communities. The figure of €23 million relates to this. I wish to inform...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The fund should be increased, although not necessarily by taking money from the fair deal scheme, as it stands.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: We should increase the fund for home help and enhanced home care packages.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I cannot do anything about that now, but I only approach things in the way I would like them to be dealt with.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: That is how I judge myself, which is why I am not as abusive to Deputy Mattie McGrath as he is to me.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Yes, I am on the rota today.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The other Topical Issues are related to my Department.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I am taking this issue on behalf of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe. All Members of the House will be well aware that the Minister has responsibility for overall policy and funding of the national roads programme. The planning, design and implementation of individual road projects are matters for the National Roads Authority, NRA, under the Roads...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I have distributed a note which will tell Members everything they need to know. The Government did not cap the fund referred to by Deputy Mattie McGrath. Fianna Fáil did so and he was a member of that party.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: No; Fianna Fáil capped the fund and he was a member of the party.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy agreed to it.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: He was warned about it. As people listen to the Deputy, we can answer him.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy Dennis Naughten must have got hold of the plan, because everything he suggests needs to be done.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The €25 million in question is ring-fenced. I agree with Deputy John O'Mahony's comments; it would be unsatisfactory for the process to run to six months. The only way people would wait until March of next year after having applied now would be if we did nothing. It will happen if we do nothing, but that is not what we will do. We are committed to acting; it is not as if this issue...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy will do anything to get elected.

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: There was a recent Topical Issue dealing with stroke care. The stroke programme is being rolled out. We reduced the percentage of people moving from acute hospitals to nursing homes from 17.3% in 2009 to 14.5% in 2012. The percentage of patients discharged directly home has increased from 49.4% to 51.5%.

Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy should not say that.

Topical Issue Debate: Home Care Packages (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: There is no disagreement. The ideal is a seamless service that is not interrupted just because the child reaches a particular chronological milestone. Circumstances might not permit it but the ideal is that the nurses providing the home care will continue to do so. That is the argument I will make and I am sure I will be told there are 100 reasons that it cannot happen. Others who deliver...

Topical Issue Debate: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I could not agree more with the Deputy. The joining up of posts we are putting into the community provides that sort of interconnection between primary teams and community intervention teams. I have first-hand experience showing that when strokes are treated quickly and in the correct location, the outcome can be as though the stroke had never occurred. It is incredible. I credit the last...