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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Youth Work: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Dr. Sinead McMahon: I will talk about the UBU and Mr. Lawlor's reference earlier to pulling it apart. UBU is a funding stream for targeted youth work. It has its roots in the value for money review, VFM, completed by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs as it was at the time in 2014. It looked at the delivery of youth work services solely through an economics lens. That led to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (18 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 Reviews (21 Mar 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: 1421. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work his Department has engaged in to implement the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13397/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Alan Dillon: The figure is €205,000. Does the Department do a value-for-money review on each of the beds that have been delivered?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (13 Dec 2022)

Mary Butler: ...a monthly cap of €5,250 per nursing home, over the period of July to December 2022. Nursing homes can claim three-quarters of €7,000 of vouched expenses overall. Further work is also being undertaken to address issues in the sector on foot of the recommendations of the NTPF Pricing Review, the Value for Money review of Nursing Home costs and the report of the Strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: ...nursing homes and, following analysis, to make recommendations for improving the value for money obtained by the Health sector. The review was published in December 2021 and can be viewed by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/ Among the issues raised were the pay costs of staff in nursing homes, the dependency levels of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: ...nursing homes and, following analysis, to make recommendations for improving the value for money obtained by the Health sector. The review was published in December 2021 and can be viewed by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/ Among the issues raised were the pay costs of staff in nursing homes, the dependency levels of...

Seanad: Private Nursing Home Sector: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: ...a resource allocation model that will cover the continuum of long-term care. This work is complemented by the ongoing implementation of the wide-ranging recommendations of the Covid-19 nursing homes expert panel report and the 2021 value for money review of nursing home costs. I would like to discuss the issue of nursing home closures. The closure of nursing homes can put pressure on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: ...public nursing homes and, following analysis, to make recommendations for improving the value for money obtained by the Health sector. The review was published in December 2021 and can be viewed by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/  Among the issues raised were the pay costs of staff in nursing homes, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: ...public nursing homes and, following analysis, to make recommendations for improving the value for money obtained by the Health sector. The review was published in December 2021 and can be viewed by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/  Among the issues raised were the pay costs of staff in nursing homes, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (27 Oct 2022)

Mary Butler: ...public nursing homes and, following analysis, to make recommendations for improving the value for money obtained by the Health sector. The review was published in December 2021 and can be viewed by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/ Among the issues raised were the pay costs of staff in nursing homes, the dependency...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (19 Oct 2022)

Mary Butler: ...the NTPF to take forward the recommended actions that emerged from the review of the NTPF pricing system published in June 2021. In addition, the Department is also taking forward the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home costs published last December. In response to the strategic workforce challenges in the nursing home and home care sector, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. A number of changes to the School Transport Scheme were introduced in Budget 2011, which derived from recommendations in the Value for Money Review of the Scheme. These changes encompassed a number of elements including the cessation of catchment boundary area to determine eligibility at post primary level. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (12 Oct 2022)

Mary Butler: ...x20ac;47 million of additional funding for the Nursing Home Support Scheme to maintain services and manage inflationary increases. In addition, the Department is also taking forward the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home costs published last December.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (6 Oct 2022)

Mary Butler: ...the NTPF to take forward the recommended actions that emerged from the review of the NTPF pricing system published in June 2021. In addition, the Department is also taking forward the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home costs published last December.

Housing for All Update: Statements (Resumed) (4 Oct 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...is being done. Billions of euro have been spent on these bodies in the past number of years, yet we are not seeing the delivery that should be equivalent to that. I ask the Minister to ensure that a value-for-money review is carried out immediately because I am very concerned that taxpayers' money is being wasted here and we are not seeing delivery. I call that waste. It is no way for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (4 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this answer

Alan Dillon: ...the steps that the HSE has taken alongside the Department of Health and the National Treatment Purchase Fund to address the cost-differential between private and public nursing homes, following a value-for-money review including nine recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48096/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Sep 2022)

Mary Butler: ...to work with the NTPF to take forward the recommended actions that emerged from the review of the NTPF pricing system published in June 2021. In addition, the Department is also taking forward the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home costs published last December.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Butler: ...these negotiations. The Department continues to work with the NTPF to take forward the recommended actions that emerged from the NTPF pricing review, as well as taking forward the nine recommendations of the Value for Money Review on Nursing Home Costs published last December. I would also like to highlight the other supports provided to the private and voluntary nursing home sector...