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

Jim O'Callaghan: 1409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in each LHO area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment as of 1 April 2024 or the latest date available; and the number waiting less than 6, 6-12, 12-18 and more than 18 months. [14472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours currently being provided in each LHO area as of 1 April 2024 or the latest date available; how that compares to target in each LHO for the same time period; the number of people currently on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; and the number waiting less than 6, 6-12, 12-18 and more than 18 months, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 April 2024, or latest date available; the average waiting time; for each LHO area the numbers of persons currently awaiting placement under the scheme; and the length of time waiting, in tabular form. [14474/24]

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

Jim O'Callaghan: 1412. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1413. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists in 2024 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [14478/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1414. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 April 2024; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [14479/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges at the end of March 2024 for each public/voluntary hospital; and the total number to date in 2024, in tabular form. [14480/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1416. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost owing to delayed discharges to date in 2024 for each public/voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [14481/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1417. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years or over that experienced an emergency department wait time more than 24 hours during Q1 2024; the total number to date in 2024; and the hospitals where the wait occurred. [14482/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in Q1 2024; the number of such ambulances that waited longer than 20 minutes to hand over patients, get their trolleys back and return to responding to calls; the number that waited longer than 40 minutes for same; the number that waited longer than 60 minutes for same; the number...

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Maternity Protection Act 1994 and to provide for postponement of maternity leave where a mother has been diagnosed with cancer or other serious illness during pregnancy, and to provide for related matters. The purpose of this Bill is to amend the maternity protection Acts so that a mother who has...

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for appearing today. We are doing pre-legislative scrutiny on the Bill and I do not think there is any dispute as to the motivation or intention behind it. However, as legislators we need to check it out and see what the Department says in respect of it. The Bill is obviously based on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act 2018, which amended the NTMA Act 2014 by putting in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The purpose of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act was to introduce statutory prohibitions and restrictions with respect to investment by ISIF in fossil fuel undertakings. Is it the Department's view that it is a good or bad idea to start identifying investments, which are regarded as politically or morally unacceptable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I think Deputy Pringle's Bill was introduced in November 2016. Once the Department and the Government got their hands on it there were obviously significant alterations made, which have lessened the impact it would have had, if it had just been introduced as originally drafted by Deputy Pringle. Do I take it, if the Bill we are looking at today is to be processed by Government, that similar...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Department's concern is that we would be outsourcing an executive decision to the United Nations for the purpose of designating companies, which were covered by Irish statute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Why? Is that because the Department's legal advice is that is not permissible?