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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...came forward actually come to fruition and be backed to deliver. It is €13 million that is available for those this year. On the review of the efficacy of the horse racing sector, how the fund is spent, and a value-for-money review of the way it is spent at present, we have committed to doing that. The tender for that review is under way or is being finalised. It is in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...driven by variances in staff-to-resident ratios and the skill mix in public and private nursing homes. The VFM Review made nine recommendations which the Department continues to take forward. The Value for Money Review can be found by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/ The Department of Health published a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...so. A total of €1.4 billion will be spent to support 22,700 residents in nursing home care this year. That is more than the amount allocated to mental health for the whole year. Regarding the value-for-money review the Deputy mentioned, the sample used was very small. It referred to five nursing homes and does not stand up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Mr. Se?n Clancy: We have answered a lot of questions on the Reserve, if the Senator will forgive me saying so, but on his specific points, I am conscious that the value for money review in 2013 to which he referred to, coupled with the single force concept, had a significant impact on the Reserve. The Senator referred to Belmullet. There was a time when we had in the order of 43 barracks,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (12 Jul 2023)

Mary Butler: ..., important strands of reform to the nursing home sector are being, or have been, brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on: The nine recommendations that emerged from the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs,The 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related to long-term sectoral reform, The four...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

...been civilians. I take the Deputy's point but I will point out that, when we raised this is a secondary effect of service in the Reserve a number of years ago, all the way back at the time of the value-for-money review, if people remember that, the thinking at the time among the most senior levels in the military was that there was no other value to the Reserve outside of its strict...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Butler: ...the NTPF. Important strands of reform to the nursing home sector are being, or have been, brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on: •     The nine recommendations that emerged from the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs,•     The 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Jul 2023)

Mary Butler: ...this recommendation and the others. In addition to progressing the recommendations that emerged form the Pricing Review, Important strands of reform to the nursing home sector are being, or have been, brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on: •     The nine recommendations that emerged from the Value for Money Review on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Jul 2023)

Mary Butler: ...that they are not able to be cared for elsewhere in the community. The HSE needs to be equipped to deliver that kind of complex care. In December 2021, the Department published the independently chaired Value for Money review on nursing home costs. The review found that the cost differential is largely driven by variances in staff-to-resident ratios and the skill mix in public and private...

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

Martin Browne: ...general area. In 2021, HIQA pointed out that the single fee payable by the nursing home support scheme does not provide funding based solely on the care needs of the older person. That was in the value-for-money review of nursing home care costs. There is no interpretation needed here because it is as clear as day. I will read from correspondence I received recently from the family...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: ...;1.5 billion for 2023. Important strands of reform to the nursing home sector are being, or have been, brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on: • The nine recommendations that emerged from the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, • The 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: ...centres as well as across private nursing homes, with HSE Community Nursing Units generally having a higher cost of care. In December 2021, the Department published the independently chaired Value for Money review on nursing home costs. The review found that the cost differential is largely driven by variances in staff-to-resident ratios and the skill mix in public and private nursing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: ...committed to delivering on the 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related to long-term sectoral reform, the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, the four recommendations of the NTPF Review of Pricing System for Long Term Residential Care Facilities and the 16 recommendations of the Strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 May 2023)

Mary Butler: ...under the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009 and the Department of Health published a review of the NTPF pricing system in June 2021. Variation in public/private cost of careIn December 2021, the Department published the independently chaired Value for Money review on nursing home costs. The review found that the cost differential is largely driven by variances in staff-to-resident...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 May 2023)

Mary Butler: ...been, brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on the 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related to long-term sectoral reform, the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, the four recommendations of the NTPF Review of Pricing System for Long Term Residential Care Facilities and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 May 2023)

Mary Butler: ...carries out this role independently under the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009 and the Department of Health published a review of the NTPF pricing system in June 2021. In December 2021, the Department published the independently chaired Value for Money review on nursing home costs. The review found that the cost differential is largely driven by variances in staff-to-resident...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 May 2023)

Mary Butler: ...in isolation but in the context of wider sectoral reforms which continue to be brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on: • The nine recommendations that emerged from the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, • The 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related to long-term sectoral reform,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 May 2023)

Mary Butler: ...nursing homes should not be viewed in isolation but in the context of wider sectoral reforms, many of which are being or have already been brought forward. The Government remains committed to delivering on the nine recommendations that emerged from the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, the 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: ...remains committed to delivering on the 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related to long-term sectoral reform, the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs and the 16 recommendations of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants which I have fully...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: ...committed to delivering on the 86 recommendations of COVID-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel, especially those recommendations related to long-term sectoral reform, the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs, the four recommendations of the NTPF Review of Pricing System for Long Term Residential Care Facilities and the 16 recommendations of the Strategic...