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Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: The National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy (NTRIS) contains a set of specific actions aimed at improving the situation for Traveller and Roma communities in Ireland. Recommendation 73 of the NTRIS states that: The Health Service Executive will develop and implement a detailed action plan, based on the findings of the All Ireland Traveller Health Study, to continue to address the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Dealing (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Effective law enforcement and supply reduction strategies and actions to prevent, disrupt or otherwise reduce the availability of illicit drugs is an objective of the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery - a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025. The use of violence or the threat of violence to enforce debts related to drug use creates an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Crime (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: The national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, contains a strategic action to strengthen the effectiveness of the drug-related intimidation reporting programme. The National Drug-Related Intimidation Reporting Programme which was developed by the National Family Support Network and An Garda Síochána, provides a framework to allow reporting of an incident of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (13 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I do not know of any project in the time of this Government or the last, or the one before that, that did not exceed some of its costs. The Government and the Minister for Health have given a commitment that every precaution will be taken to reduce the risk of inflation. Ultimately, when this is completed we will have an excellent hospital, probably one of the best in Europe if not the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (13 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Harris. I begin by congratulating Deputy Wallace on his election as an MEP to the European Parliament. I wish him well. I am sure we will still hear his voice loud and clear from across the waters. I want to remind the House of the significant progress that has been made on this project. After false starts and failures to build...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (13 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I thank Deputy Wallace. I am sorry that I cannot answer some of the detailed questions he has asked but I will relay them to the Minister. I fundamentally disagree with the Deputy on the way the project has been run from the outset. We are not just talking about a building. It is about having a facility for all the children of Ireland. It is about having a facility in a community that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (13 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (13 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: In Ireland the most recent general population survey was completed in 2014-15. This shows that 2.9 per cent of 15–34-year olds used cocaine in the last year which had not changed since the 2010/11 survey. This is lower than the corresponding figure for the UK (4.7%), the Netherlands (4.5%) and roughly the same as Denmark and France. The Health Research Board is are currently...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (13 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: In Ireland the most recent general population survey was completed in 2014-15. This shows that 2.9 per cent of 15–34-year olds used cocaine in the last year which had not changed since the 2010/11 survey. The HRB are currently carrying out the 2018/19 General Population Survey on drug use and we expect results by the end of 2019. Our national drug strategy ‘Reducing Harm,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this question relates to a service issue, I have referred the matter to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Health: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this question relates to a service issue, I have referred the matter to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Direct Provision System (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: As this question relates to a service issue, I have referred the matter to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Government policy in relation to drug and alcohol misuse is set out in the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025. The Strategy represents a whole-of-government response to the problem of drug and alcohol use in Ireland. The strategy draws upon a range of government policy frameworks in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (11 Jun 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 669 to 671, inclusive, together. Drug and Alcohol Task Forces will be allocated in the region of €28 million in funding for 2019. A table outlining the core funding allocated to Drug and Alcohol Task Forces in 2019 is attached. On 6th March 2019, I announced additional funding of €1 million for the implementation of the National Drugs Strategy;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (21 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 349 and 351 together. At present there is no formal policy or plan for social prescribing in the Department of Health.  However, in close collaboration with the Research Services Unit of this Department, the HSE is working to strengthen the evidence base for social prescribing through those initiatives identified by the Deputy. As part of the information...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (21 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: Funding of €36,220 for the Waterford Social Prescribing Service was provided to Waterford Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) through Round 2 (2018) of the Healthy Ireland Fund.  Arrangements for the third Round of the Healthy Ireland Fund are being finalised by my Department and are due to be communicated to the relevant agencies shortly.  Waterford LCDC will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (21 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: A Healthy Weight for Ireland’, the Government’s Obesity Policy and Action Plan (OPAP), was launched in September 2016 under the auspices of the Healthy Ireland agenda. The OPAP covers a ten year period up to 2025 and aims to reverse obesity trends, prevent health complications and reduce the overall burden for individuals, families, the health system, and the wider society...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I apologise on behalf of the Minister, Deputy McHugh, who unfortunately had to be somewhere else. I thank the Deputy for raising this matter as it provides me with the opportunity to outline to the Dáil the current position regarding the major building project for St. Paul's secondary school, Monasterevin. This project is included in the Department of Education and Skills'...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: There seems to be a problem getting her a copy. One was supposed to be given to her.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (16 May 2019)

Catherine Byrne: I am sorry. I will just continue. The current status of the project is that the design team has recently been authorised to recommence the pre-qualification of contractors process to select shortlists of contractors for the main contract. The notice was published on the e-tenders platform on 26 April, with responses due on 27 May 2019. When the pre-qualification process for the main...