Results 18,781-18,800 of 23,892 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 237. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, his proposals for alternative and complimentary models of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9860/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 238. To ask the Minister for Health his view of the role of nursing homes in the continuum of care model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9861/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 239. To ask the Minister for Health his views that uncertainty of the future of the fair deal and the weekly rates to be paid to nursing home operators have been cited by the banking sector as some of the key impediments to lending to the nursing home sector at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9862/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 240. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of transparency and dominant negotiating position enjoyed by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, and a flat rate of fees irrespective of the levels of dependency and acuity identified as some of the key weaknesses in the current nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9864/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 242. To ask the Minister for Health his views on affording the opportunity for fair right of appeal independent of the National Treatment Purchase Fund with regard to nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9866/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 243. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, his views on the way the level of investment required to bring the public provision of long-term residential beds is substantial, €1.68 billion, and the ability of the Exchequer to make this investment is seriously under question. [9867/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 244. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that all public nursing home beds can become Health Information and Quality Authority compliant by the July 2015 deadline; his views on whether this is now a realistic or desirable objective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9868/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 245. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to nursing homes, if the deadline for the Health Information and Quality Authority compliance will be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9869/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 246. To ask the Minister for Health his views on ensuring that a uniform and consistent application of existing and future standards is brought to bear on all nursing home operators, both public and private; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9870/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 247. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding a budget for funding nursing home care that recognises the costs of providing resident centre care but which is sustainable in the context of an ageing population. [9871/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 248. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the current fair deal budget is inadequate in the context of an aging population, with associated higher dependency levels, recent decisions to divert money from the NHSS to support home care packages and other community facilities, for short-term financial gain, will be at the expense of much higher social and economic costs now and into the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 249. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the fair deal for nursing homes remains intact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9873/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (26 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: 241. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the development by the National Treatment Purchase Fund of a clear and transparent pricing policy-model which provides a fair price for patient centred care to be undertaken as a matter of priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9865/14]
- Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: Wonder woman.
- Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister is wrong. They have been closed.
- Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank Deputy Seamus Healy and his colleagues in the Technical Group for bringing forward this excellent motion. I begin by declaring an interest in this matter in that I own a small post office and am the postmaster there. I am happy to say that it provides a job for one individual. If everybody created one job, it would be a great thing. I compliment the Irish Postmasters' Union,...
- Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: I take back the word "lying". They are meagre with the truth. When it comes to the local elections, I urge people to ask the candidates who come to their door whether they are for rural post offices and the post office network or if they are happy to go along with the Labour Party and Fine Gael line. The Minister for Social Protection - otherwise known as Wonder Woman, according to the...
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: If he did it, it is all right.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: The programme for Government contains a commitment with regard to sustaining the post office network in the country. Why has the Government, through its actions, done a U-turn with regard to this? In particular the actions of the Department of Social Protection are not helping to sustain our rural post offices.
- Order of Business (25 Feb 2014)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is happening and the Government closed down Garda stations before.