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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: The answers are coming from a different room. It is difficult.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I must wrap up the debate and suggest that Ms Buckley answers the final question in writing.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I thank all our witnesses for their attendance and for the information provided for today's meeting. Is it agreed to request the Clerk to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed actions arising from this meeting? Agreed.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Mary Butler: The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection throughout Europe is no longer a distant theory. I understand that we are also making our plans here. It is imperative that nursing homes, residential homes and care homes be given much higher status when these plans are being drawn up. I welcome what the Minister announced in his opening speech, that there will be a nursing home...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the July provision programme will take place in 2020 (details supplied). [5891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1099. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for children in the children’s own homes and in which phase this activity can recommence. [5590/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for children in their own homes and in which phase this activity can recommence. [5591/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening of Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for the children of healthcare workers and in which phase of the plan this activity can recommence. [5592/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1102. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify, following the publication of the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business, guidelines on to Covid-19 for registered and non-registered childminders that care for the children of essential workers and in which phase of the plan this activity can recommence. [5593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1105. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the guidelines on childminders re-opening following this period of closure will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5556/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (20 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 1206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an appeals decision will be finalised for a person (details supplied) which was first submitted on 24 October 2019. [5688/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (19 May 2020)

Mary Butler: Are we in public session now?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (19 May 2020)

Mary Butler: We agreed last Tuesday that we would give two sessions to the issue of nursing homes because it has been so significant. Some 62% of all deaths have occurred in residential settings. We agreed last Tuesday that we would have two sessions.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I welcome the witnesses, and thank them for giving their time. I thank them for their work to date and the response of the healthcare sector. I have four or five questions which I will put them to all three witnesses and whoever wishes to respond may do so. This awful pandemic has borne down heaviest on older people, in particular those in nursing homes and residential facilities....

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (14 May 2020)

Mary Butler: I will speak for a minute and a half to allow the Minister to respond. The economic impact from the Covid outbreak has already been unprecedented. Many businesses throughout the country have had to close their doors to adhere to public health advice to combat the spread of the virus. Many supports, as the Minister has outlined, have been put in place with 590,000 receiving the pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the budget for Sláintecare for 2020; the priority areas to which the funding will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3924/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated and drawn down each year to date under the Sláintecare programme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3925/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 454. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the Sláintecare programme can be implemented in full within its planned ten year cycle; if not, when it will be fully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3926/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Provision (13 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 708. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment for occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4918/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (13 May 2020)

Mary Butler: 802. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided in each LHO area as of 17 April 2020 or the latest date available; the way in which it compares to target in each LHO for the same time period; the number of persons on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting 0 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 12 and more than12 months, respectively...