Results 1-20 of 86 for carers speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (9 Apr 2024)

David Cullinane: 1622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of each quarter of each year 2019-2024, inclusive in tabular form; and the breakdown, by length of wait. [15432/24]

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: I have a grá for carers - I imagine everybody in this House does - because of the work they do. A number of weeks ago I was asked to visit the home of a person who was being cared for and there was an issue that they were asking me to assist with. The carer was present in the house. What struck me was that the carer was an older lady who was looking after her husband, and she had...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of January of each year 2019-2024, inclusive; and the breakdown by length of wait, in tabular form. [7266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (15 Feb 2024)

David Cullinane: 393. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on home support waiting lists for a carer at the end of each month of each year 2019-2023, inclusive; the breakdown by length of wait, in tabular form. [7303/24]

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

David Cullinane: ...it by cutting the overall budget provision for home support hours. The Government failed to link these standards to home care services for people with disabilities, which means it now expects providers and carers to do the most complex work for less pay. By delaying the regulation of home care and cover of travel and subsistence for carers on the same basis as direct HSE employees, the...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: .... The staff work extremely hard. They know Joan's personality now. They know her likes and dislikes, how to get around her, her interests and her habits. My eyes have been opened to the tremendous work the carers and the staff do. They are inspirational. I am angry having to write this down about my mother because of an action by Government and I am begging you to act to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (21 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a home support waiting list for funding and for a carer in CHO 6, in tabular form. [29958/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

David Cullinane: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: - respite and short break services play an essential role in supporting family carers and people with disabilities, yet three quarters of families get no respite at all; - there is a significant level of unmet need in terms of respite care, with less than 5,200 people receiving a respite service in 2022, despite there being an estimated...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (16 Feb 2023)

David Cullinane: ...personal assistant, PA, hours and additional home care packages to serve distinct needs and support independent living. We also have a severe shortage of respite care services. Less than a third of carers for adults with intellectual disabilities can avail of respite care. There are lots of pieces to this. There are lots of elements to that disability capacity review. The overall...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: ...to a commission of care. That still has not happened. The logic of that commission is to modernise the home care sector and to better align care, from home care or care in the home to family carers and, then, to nursing home or residential care and palliative care, so aligning all the different strands of care and looking at how we integrate and align all those models. A commission on...

Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: ...equitable access to high-quality, regulated home care" and to "establish a commission to examine care" and the Government's commitment to establish a national home support office; and — the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants was published on the 15th October, 2022, made 16 recommendations across recruitment, pay...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 1134. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on home support waiting lists for funding and for a carer by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55090/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 1135. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are in receipt of home support or a carer but who are not in full receipt of their hours, by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55091/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: ...and the Minister for Health the issue of the pandemic bonus payment. It has still not been paid to many front-line healthcare workers. Many workers who work in nursing homes, some of the carers of whom we spoke earlier who are not HSE staff and staff in section 39 organisations that provide services to people with disabilities have still not been paid. We were told that there was a...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: ...assistance with no support for independent living in the coming years. This was also part of the capacity review but again I do not see any multi-annual plan. It certainly fails to give a break to parents and carers in need of respite services with at least 20,000 additional respite hours and 7,400 day-service places needed over the next ten years. The capacity review was done to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

David Cullinane: 789. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with disabilities on homecare, home support and personal assistant waiting lists for funding and for a carer or personal assistant in tabular form by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37063/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care: Discussion (9 Feb 2022)

David Cullinane: Family Carers Ireland has sought representation but has not received clarity about the structure or composition of the group or what its terms of reference are. We can add that to the list of questions for the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: ...attention has been drawn to issues regarding international recruitment into the health service regarding work permits; if his attention has been further drawn to issues regarding the recruitment of carers and healthcare assistants and disputes regarding constraints on critical skills employment permits; his plans to address the shortage of carers and healthcare assistants; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Nov 2021)

David Cullinane: ...the Minister for Health the number of persons over and under 65 years of age on home support waiting lists, that is, waiting on funding for home support, new and additional; the number waiting on a carer to be assigned, new and additional; the number waiting on equipment to be provided, new and additional by CHO in each quarter since quarter 4 2018, in tabular form; the number of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 118. To ask the Minister for Health if a primary carer or family member will be allowed in hospitals to take care of persons with dementia in addition to nurses and hospital carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22390/21]