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Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: ...Health Bill to the House. The Bill has been long in gestation. A commitment to review the Mental Health Act 2001 “informed by human rights standards and in consultation with service users, carers and other stakeholders” was committed to by the current and previous Governments. The review of the Mental Health Act and the development of a new Bill have featured in successive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...; Extensive engagement with the HSE and DPENDR on the establishment of the HSE home support tender in 2023, ensuring that it delivers on commitments for sectoral reform such as payment for travel time for home support providers, paying carers the National Living Wage at a minimum, and bringing legacy rates in line with the new revised rates of funding. • Liaising with the DETE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...is being addressed by a cross-departmental group, chaired by the Department of Health. The minutes and progress reports can be found here: www.gov.ie/en/publication/66dd1-strategic-workforce-advisory -group-on-home-carers-and-nursing-home-healthcare-assistants /. A new HSE home support tender has been in place since August ‘23. This delivers on commitments for sectoral reform such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...Mary Butler, T.D., established a cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group and this Group was charged with examining, and formulating recommendations to address challenges in front-line carer roles in home support and long-term residential care sectors. The Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants was published on 15...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...rate for home support services from August 2023. The Authorisation Scheme delivers on commitments for sectoral reform such as payment for travel time for home support providers, paying carers the National Living Wage at a minimum, and bringing legacy rates in line with the new, revised rate of funding of €31 per hour for standard home support. A separate process of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...of Care for Dementia, which addresses the needs of all people living with dementia and sets out care pathways to advance timely diagnosis and post-diagnostic support and care for them and their carers. To implement the Model of Care, the Government has funded the establishment of 25 Regional Specialist Memory Clinics nationwide, as well as new Memory Assessment and Support Services and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...of Care for Dementia, which addresses the needs of all people living with dementia and sets out care pathways to advance timely diagnosis and post-diagnostic support and care for them and their carers. To implement the Model of Care, the Government has funded the establishment of 25 Regional Specialist Memory Clinics nationwide, as well as new Memory Assessment and Support Services and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...service while 181 individuals were awaiting additional supports in conjunction with their current Home Support services within the Waterford city and county catchment area. This waiting list results from carer capacity issues both within the HSE Health Care Assistant (Home Support) staffing and within the private provider agencies which are included in the Home Support Authorisation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ..., or do not wish to, attend centre-based day care. This was first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic and is universally viewed as beneficial, improving both the quality of life of clients and providing a break for family carers. 52 dementia-specific day centres have also opened. Alongside this, I allocated €300,000 in funding to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland to provide...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...workers. Every single Minister I met said this was an area in which they are really challenged. Before I address the matters raised, I will acknowledge the outstanding efforts of front-line carers and all those who work right across our health and social services. They work extremely hard seven days per week, including bank holidays. They work split shifts where they work mornings...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...recently met other European health ministers, and I can assure Members that we are far from alone in finding it difficult to recruit people into this essential sector. I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the hard work of carers in delivering this unprecedented amount of care and thank them for their commitment and the care that they deliver in the homes of older people...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...as we seek to maximise the functional capacity of older people so that they can return home following a stay in an acute hospital. Sacred Heart Hospital also provides a respite bed to allow family carers in the community a welcome break. This bed is currently occupied. This bed offers additional assistance to families and carers in Castlebar to help alleviate the ongoing stress...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...and now need rehabilitation, perhaps after a stroke or a hip operation, to be well enough then to go back into their communities. The Sacred Heart Hospital provides a respite bed to give family carers in the community a welcome break. This bed is currently occupied. The bed offers additional assistance to family and carers. The HSE has also said that if any emergency respite care...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (12 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...was announced by the previous Government, the perception was that statutory home care would be like nursing home care in the home. That is not the way I see it because we would not have enough carers to deliver it. My budget for home care this year is €730 million. The nut has not been cracked yet as regards at what stage people would contribute to the cost of home care,...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...sector but has now been rolled out across the private and voluntary sectors. As Deputies are aware, significant work has taken place on the recommendations of the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants. I reassure them that HSE home support staff recruitment is exempt from the current employment control measures, where the posts are to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ..., the Dementia Services Information and Development Centre, and Age & Opportunity. The campaign working group includes representatives from these organisations as well as people with dementia and family carers. Over 40 national organisations and 1,000 community champions are now supporting the campaign, including transport providers, retailers, libraries, galleries and museums,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...only, with invitations to be extended to a range of organisations, including, inter alia, non-governmental organisations, community and voluntary bodies, and representatives of service-providers and carers. The work of the Reference Group will be advanced through bi-annual national plenary meetings and thematic focus groups. The agendas for the national plenary meetings and thematic...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...as she had a long-standing commitment. The Minister is not opposing the motion put forward by the Deputies. I welcome this opportunity to discuss the important issue of supporting our family carers. I thank the Regional Group of Deputies who brought forward this motion. I think this is a timely discussion. As the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...who have been diagnosed with a life limiting illness from the time of diagnosis through bereavement and death. This policy considers both the needs of the person with a serious illness and that of their carer. The new policy is focused on improving services and supports for patients, families, and carers. A population-based and needs-based approach to service provision is to be adopted....

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: ...and access to services based on robust evidence. This is really welcome. The Deputy will be aware that in my role, I put in place the strategic workforce advisory group trying to support more carers to come into the role of caring. We have an ageing population and one of the recommendations was around the people who might agree to do X number of hours caring but they would not lose...