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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is a very worthwhile and relevant concern if we are not making the differentiation between people who require support towards the later stage of lives and those, often young people, who simply need support to live their lives. In my last three minutes I will move to an issue relating to the complaints process. Am I correct in assuming that once this Bill has passed, effectively the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: The wording in the draft regulations is that the service provider shall have a system in place to analyse complaints to ensure that lessons are learned from patterns of complaints made and that the quality of service is improved. That is all very welcome for future users of the service. However, what I was looking for in those draft regulations is an outline of remedy. Is Ms Larthwell's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Has the Department dealt with the issue of remedy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: When can we expect to see some information on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: One of the issues that came up in the consultation was the issue of direct employment. I ask Ms Larthwell to expand on the concerns in respect of direct employment. As has already been outlined by other contributors, in some cases people have a close relationship with their care giver that does not necessarily fit into the natural State-led regulatory environment. There might be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How will that issue be parsed? We would not want to unwittingly promote under-the-table provision of care with a kind of incentive for direct employment, if Ms Larthwell can see what I am saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is fair to say that we do not want to interfere but we also have a duty of care as a State to make sure that people are not in coercive situations or being taken advantage of. The State still has a role there even within a direct employment situation.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (18 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 225. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on her plans to launch a reformed scheme to give effect to all nine recommendations outlined in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26122/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (18 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 295. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department's policy on early-years interventions for children with disability or developmental delay; how this integrates with early-years education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26046/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 369. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1472 of 9 April 2024, the reasons for the differences between the list of organisations provided and those provided in Parliamentary Question No. 608 of 17 October 2023; the total number of Section 38 and Section 39 organisations funded by the HSE each year; if he will outline the organisations which were no longer in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 840.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to speed up the process for the assessment for and issuing of wheelchairs to children in view of the regularity which a child needs to be issued a new wheelchair as they grow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25314/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 841.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a re-use system for wheelchairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25315/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I might stay in the digital space for a moment. I was also surprised by the championing of the app in Mr. Devane's statement. Is there sufficient funding currently to deal with cyberattacks? Can Mr. Devane give us a little rundown on that and how he is prioritising it within his workload?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: By inherent weaknesses, does Mr. Devane mean that various hospitals or settings are using various types of programmes and networks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairperson Designate (29 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I think "inelegant" might be slightly underestimating the threat that it poses. Is the HSE looking at nearly 500 lawsuits relating to the 2021 breach?