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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 510. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of home care support services outsourced to private companies in 2018, by CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26815/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if the requirement for travel time payments to home care support staff will have to be covered from the existing 2019 budget for home care hours; if this will contribute to a reduction in hours available for persons in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26816/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 512. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether home care support packages provided by the Health Service Executive offer the best value to support persons who need care at home; and his plans to fill the vacancies in the sector. [26817/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 513. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures being put in place to provide the relevant information technology programme to facilitate the new rota requirements for home care support staff that are now rostered five over seven days as per the recent agreement or contract. [26819/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 514. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive dementia home care packages in place from January 2019 to date. [26820/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 515. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a new dementia strategy in view of the fact the current one has expired; his plans to provide more dementia advisers for the 55,000 persons currently suffering with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26821/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 516. To ask the Minister for Health if extending the FreeStyle Libre device to adults with type 1 diabetes will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26822/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 517. To ask the Minister for Health the services available in the primary care unit in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; the number of staff employed; his plans to enhance services in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26823/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Incidence (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 518. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent number of young persons who have committed suicide in the south County Tipperary area; his plans to enhance mental health services in this area; his plans to provide counselling services for families affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26824/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 519. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in the treatment abroad scheme office; the length of time it takes to process an application once all the paperwork is in order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26825/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that availed of the treatment abroad scheme in 2018, by county in tabular form; the cost involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26826/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 521. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive capital plan for 2019 will be published; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26827/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: 672. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discretionary road grants provided through Transport Infrastructure Ireland to individual local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26636/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: The committee is meeting to continue its engagements on the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018. I welcome Ms Sinead Farrell and Mr. Darragh Walshe from the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society, Dr. Olive McCarthy and Ms Bridget Carroll from the Centre for Co-Operative Studies at UCC and Mr. Brendan Murtagh and Ms Caitriona Allis from the Association of Chartered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Walshe. I call Ms Bridget Carroll.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Ms Carroll. I invite Mr. Murtagh to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Murtagh. He stated: "The requirement for an annual return is substantially undermined if the financial statements attaching to the annual return are non-standard". Will he explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I thank Mr. Murtagh for the clarification. I call Senator Mac Lochlainn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: Perhaps we could tease out this issue a little further. Dr. McCarthy said earlier that on balance the Centre for Co-operative Studies supports the amendment to reduce the number of members required to establish a co-operative to three but it has some reservations in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of the Industrial and Provident Societies (Amendment) Bill 2018 (25 Jun 2019)

Mary Butler: I have one final question, to which I ask Ms Carroll and Mr. Murtagh to respond. The proposed amendment to section 14 of the principal Act, which deals with audits, recommends retention of the requirement for annual returns and audited accounts while allowing specific societies to apply for an audit exemption under certain conditions, which might include an asset size turnover threshold, as...