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Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (19 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (19 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: The Department of Health allocated funding of almost €100m to the HSE for addiction services in 2019. The HSE National Service Plan 2019 sets out the type and volume of addiction services to be provided, having regard to the funding allocated. In addition, the Department provides a further €28m to Drug and Alcohol Task Forces through various channels of funding, including...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Places (19 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence Services Funding (19 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I understand that the organisation to which the Deputy refers provides support services to victims of domestic abuse and violence and to their families. The Department of Justice and Equality leads on the National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence. I understand from that Department that the Victims of Crime Office, under its annual funding scheme, is providing funding of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Products Supply (14 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I thank the Deputy for the opportunity to address this issue on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health. The community funded schemes are a collective name for the many products, supports, supplies and aids and appliances provided through the HSE community services for eligible persons. Their main purpose is to assist and support service users to live at home and also to facilitate...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Products Supply (14 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Again, I apologise to the Deputy if the answer was not adequate. We all want what is best for those who are ill in our communities, particularly those loved ones who spend a lot of time at home and people in nursing homes. I am not unfamiliar with the matter. When my mother was so ill at home, the local service made life easier for all of us when we were looking after her. It involves...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (14 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: May I finish?

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: The recommendation put forward by the Labour Court is a fair and balanced solution to a significant industrial dispute and is consistent with the PSSA. I thank all the Deputies and urge them to show their support for the Labour Court recommendation.

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As the Minister has already stated, the health service is not starved of resources, contrary to what the motion claims. He referred to the record levels of funding allocated to the HSE this year. However, the health service is more than just numbers. The additional resources allocated are delivering improved services and outcomes for the public. The positive impacts of these increased...

Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I thank the Deputies on behalf of myself and the Minister, Deputy Harris, for tabling the motion on this important issue. It is good to have an opportunity to debate the concerns Deputies have around this dispute. The Government welcomes the recent development in the dispute in the recommendations from the Labour Court. Listening to some of the speakers, I noted how passionately they spoke...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (12 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 348 and 349 together. Under the umbrella of the national oversight group, the Obesity Policy Implementation Oversight Group, work is being intensified on the development of the monitoring mechanism for the Codes of Practice on the Marketing and Advertising of Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages. This has taken longer than anticipated with respect to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Health Policy (12 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Connect, Collaborate, Create; Co-Designing Healthier Communities, A Healthy Ireland Stakeholder Forum on the Built Environment, was held on November 21st 2018, in the National Indoor Arena. The event was organised by the cross-Governmental Implementation Groups overseeing the National Physical Activity Plan and the Obesity Policy and Action Plan. The Forum brought together those who...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces Funding (12 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: The Department of Health allocated funding of almost €100m to the HSE for addiction services in 2019. The HSE National Service Plan 2019 sets out the type and volume of addiction services to be provided, having regard to the funding allocated. In addition, the Department provides a further €28m to Drug and Alcohol Task Forces through various channels of funding, including the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (12 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Data (12 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: The Department of Health allocated funding of almost €100m to the HSE for addiction services in 2019 in line with their 2019 Service Plan. The HSE National Service Plan 2018 sets out the type and volume of health and social care services to be provided by the Health Service Executive in 2019, having regard to the funding allocated. In addition, the Department provided €28m to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Data (12 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Rehabilitation Clinics (6 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Treatment Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I agree with the Deputy in raising the issue here and in looking at how we can proceed at looking at another programme to identify the length of time people are on methadone. As he said, people are on methadone over a long period. Some of them have been on it for more than then ten years. For many, it is an opportunity to remain stable and to continue their lives and work. I know many of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Treatment Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I agree with the Deputy that there is a small percentage of people on Suboxone, but we are heading in the right direction. We have had additional funding this year to roll it out further. We will do that. Under the new strategy it is very clear to me and my Department that we will have to evaluate some of the methadone treatment numbers to see what we can do in the future to help people to...