Results 14,821-14,840 of 15,638 for speaker:Helen McEntee
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (11 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (11 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (11 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (11 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (11 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: The amount allocated to mental health services under the HSE’s National Service Plan will increase by €41 million, or just over 5%, to €826 million for 2016. This represents a net increase of €115 million to the mental health Budget since 2012. This increase has helped to fund additional posts to strengthen Community Mental Health Teams for both adults and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (11 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (6 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: The Irish National Dementia Strategy was launched in December 2014, with the objective of increasing awareness, ensuring early diagnosis and intervention and developing enhanced community based services. In parallel with the Strategy the Department of Health and the HSE have agreed a joint initiative with the Atlantic Philanthropies to implement significant elements of the Strategy over the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Crime Data (6 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: In the first instance, murder constitutes a criminal act and a Garda investigation must take place before any cases of what is later classified as murder-suicide can be confirmed. Murder-suicide cases in Ireland, as in most other countries, are rare. However, the National Suicide Research Foundation recently confirmed that, since 2004, there have been at least 21 murder-suicide cases in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (6 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (6 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (6 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue, this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: "notes:— in line with the Programme for a Partnership Government, the Government acknowledges that:— 2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Report of the Expert Group on Mental Health Policy entitled A Vision for Change, which laid out a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (5 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue this question has been referred for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (5 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (4 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: I am also delighted to have the opportunity to address the House on Second Stage of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which was published in January. As Minister of State for mental health and older people, I am particularly pleased about the provisions in sections 6 to 8, inclusive, in Part 3 of the Bill to amend the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. As the Minister, Deputy...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Youth Services Provision (4 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue, this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Remit (4 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: At present HIQA's remit does not extend to the regulation of residential centres catering for elderly members of religious orders. Under Section 2 of the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990, premises in which the majority of the persons being maintained are members of a religious order or priests of any religion are offered an exemption to registration. This is a matter that I will keep under...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Oct 2016)
Helen McEntee: As this is a service issue, this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.