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Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: We are all agreed it is vital that citizens who require home help hours and home care packages get the hours and service they are entitled to expect in any decent society. Home help services and packages are a lifeline to some of the most vulnerable members of our community. This year, 10.7 million hours of home help support will be provided in communities from Louth to Limerick and Donegal...

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: Compare Sinn Féin's pronouncements tonight with its decision last week that will see at least half and perhaps all state-run residential care homes in Northern Ireland close in five years.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: That is hypocrisy and deception of the most shameful kind, particularly viewed in the context of this motion. Is the party tabling the motion tonight the same party that is closing 70 schools in Northern Ireland, only a matter of miles from my constituency where we are building a considerable number of schools and extending even more? By slashing spending in the North to the tune of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Election of Chairman (16 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: I propose Deputy Michael McCarthy as Chairman of the joint committee.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of any direct financial support provided to the Irish Banking Federation from his Department in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44208/12]

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: What do we mean by responsibility in the context of this Bill? In particular, what is our own cultural attitude to responsibility? In my view, for too long our default approach to responsibility has been like someone sitting in a restaurant looking at the healthy option on the menu. We know it is the right thing to do, we know it is good for us but we quietly hope that someone else would...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and Dr. Ambrose McLoughlin to the meeting. The two representatives have a long track record of commitment to public service and I look forward to working with them. I will confine my remarks, observations and questions to home care packages and the home help service. Do the representatives have figures available indicating the number of home help hours in the system...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: Does Ms McGuinness have an idea of the balance between public and private provision in the Dublin north-east region or the Dublin region in general?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: That is 70% in terms of private provision.

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: We have seen a huge growth in the provision of services by private care companies in recent years. The figures I have available, and Ms McGuinness can correct me if I am wrong, suggest that, for example, in 2007 expenditure from the HSE on private care contractors was approximately €2.5 million, and such expenditure has climbed to €19.14 million in 2011, the year for which...

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: Where is the saving then?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: Can Ms McGuinness describe the type of contract enjoyed by a person directly engaged by the HSE to provide the home help service? What kind of contract would that person have?

Public Accounts Committee: Vote Management and Budgetary Situation in 2012: Discussion with Department of Health and HSE (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: That would be useful. A range of organisations, including Comfort Keepers, received just over €1 million from the HSE in 2007, and that expenditure has climbed to €3.267 million, which is a significant rise. Clearly that organisation is very active in terms of the HSE contracts. Can Ms McGuinness advise how commission is calculated and what amount of commission a private care...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in relation to the proposition to merge the forensic laboratory into the State laboratory; if he will present his rationale for doing so; if he will indicate the anticipated savings if this merger proceeds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42687/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action the Office of Public Works will take to permanently deal with the persistent flooding threat posed in Northlands, Bettystown, County Meath; in view of the fact that the flood relief work carried out at the end of 2011 has regrettably not been successful, if the OPW has recently visited the site; if he will indicate a timeframe...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a redundancy payment will be made to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42635/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Accommodation Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, through the Courts Service in relation to a timeframe for the completion of the Drogheda Courthouse development, County Louth; if he will confirm the site which has been selected; the date on which he expects the courts building to be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43136/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding two recent announcements on primary care centres (details supplied); if site locations have been announced for the developments; if agreements of any description have been entered into between the Health Service Executive and interested parties; if he will set out the process involved in the completion of these projects; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive plans for the laundry service at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, County Louth; when a decision will issue on the matter; the potential impact on staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43135/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Oct 2012)

Gerald Nash: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide figures and details by consultant specialism on the number of missed outpatient appointments in each major acute hospital in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43143/12]