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Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
(4 Dec 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank the select committee for the opportunity to bring this Supplementary Estimate for Vote 38 before it. The total additional funding sought for 2019 is €338.1 million, €90 million of which relates to decisions made subsequent to the national service plan, including pay agreements, escalation of no-deal Brexit planning, winter planning and CervicalCheck. The balance...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)

Jim Daly: ...and less healthy people. The REF managed by the Health Insurance Authority, HIA, the independent regulator of the health insurance market. In 2018 the fund redistributed approximately €732 million in premiums, out of a total of €2.85 billion in premiums paid. In 2017, the fund redistributed approximately €670 million of premiums, out of a total of about...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Jim Daly: ...is a major development in the delivery of mental health services. It is a brand new central mental hospital, for which we will receive the keys in the next number of weeks. That is a €170 million project which is on budget and on time. It will significantly transform treatment for some of the sickest forensic patients in the system and the environment in which they receive it....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: ...There will, however, always be people whose needs are best met in a residential care setting or supported housing model. There are 10 Supported Care Homes in Community Healthcare Organisation Area 5 providing accommodation and support services to older people with low to medium dependency levels. The residents cannot be maintained independently at home, but do not yet require nursing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services Provision (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: ...to planning, including crèche developments, fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government rather than the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. First 5: A Whole-of-Government Strategy for Babies, Young Children and their Families, published last year, has the strategic objective to maintain and extend the supply of high-quality,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: ...assessment units are functioning to assist admission avoidance. The University of Limerick Hospitals Group has reported that indications for an MRI scan have greatly increased over the past 15 years and that an additional MRI scanner would have an immediate benefit in faster discharge of patients and reducing admissions. Proposals for funding of a second MRI machine and replacement of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (8 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: ...There will, however, always be people whose needs are best met in a residential care setting or supported housing model. There are 10 Supported Care Homes in Community Healthcare Organisation Area 5 providing accommodation and support services to older people with low to medium dependency levels. The residents cannot be maintained independently at home, but do not yet require nursing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank Deputy Cullinane for the query. As he is aware, the cost to build the facility was €31.6 million and the annual running cost is €5 million. We will consider whether it is possible to include the centre in the upcoming Estimates. The HSE has provided €300,000 this year to try to prepare the building to be opened. The Minister for Health will meet Deputy...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (3 Jul 2019)

Jim Daly: ...during my visit. Residential care is provided through a mix of public. voluntary and private provision. It is worth highlighting that the net budget for long-term residential care in 2019 is €985 million and that over 23,000 clients, on average, at any one time will be in receipt of financial support. Public residential care units such as New Houghton Hlospital in New Ross,...

Mental Health Services Reports: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2019)

Jim Daly: ...was aimed to build infrastructure at a lower level to help prevent people having to go to CAMHS. I could have decided to carry out an initiative aimed at reducing CAMHS waiting lists and throw a couple of million euro and additional resources at it, but I pulled back and decided to be more proactive and try to get to people earlier and to get intervention working at a lower level. That...

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Jim Daly: ...defence he has successfully secured and, in accordance with the National Development 2018-2027 and Project Ireland 2040, the capital allocation for Vote 36 - defence has been increased to €106 million for 2019, an increase of €29 million or 38% on the 2018 allocation. The national development plan provides for a total of €541 million over the period from 2018 to 2022....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (15 May 2019)

Jim Daly: ...There will, however, always be people whose needs are best met in a residential care setting or supported housing model. There are 10 Supported Care Homes in Community Healthcare Organisation Area 5 providing accommodation and support services to older people with low to medium dependency levels. The residents cannot be maintained independently at home, but do not yet require nursing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Administration (13 Mar 2019)

Jim Daly: Developing all aspects of mental health remains a priority for Government, reflected by the additional €55 million provided in budget 2019, bringing overall HSE funding this year for this key care programme to €987 million. Demand for CAMHS has had an increase in referrals of over 20% since 2012. All aspects of CAMHS nationally are being improved by the HSE under its annual...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (31 Jan 2019)

Jim Daly: ...for the Government and, in line with programme for Government commitments, further investment will continue as overall resources and service pressures allow. Budget 2019 provided an additional €55 million to progress new developments in mental health, which brings overall HSE mental health funding to nearly €1 billion this year. Our aim has been that services become more...

Older People: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2018)

Jim Daly: ...as we can to people to live in their own homes. We have several challenges facing us in the demographics as Ireland catches up with the rest of the EU demographically. Our population is growing older, with the number of people over the age of 65 years set to double and the number of people over 85 years set to treble in the next 20 years. While this will prove something of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: ..., for example on primary care. All of the mental health services are delivered through primary care, are budgeted under primary care, not under mental health, so they do not come out of my €910 million budget, it comes out of the budget for primary care, even though it is delivered to mental health. NEPS services come out of the Department of Education and Skills budget, and those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (28 Jun 2018)

Jim Daly: ...abroad and in the private sector to look for locum cover. I wish to strongly re-state the Government’s commitment to mental health. This is reflected by the allocation of an additional €200 million for mental health services since 2012 resulting in around €910 million being available to the HSE for mental health this year. While this amount is significant by any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Jun 2018)

Jim Daly: ...abroad and in the private sector to look for locum cover. I wish to strongly re-state the Government’s commitment to mental health. This is reflected by the allocation of an additional €200 million for mental health services since 2012 resulting in around €910 million being available to the HSE for mental health this year. While this amount is significant by any...

Seanad: Mental Healthcare in South-East Region: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Jim Daly: ...and with agencies both abroad and in the private sector to look for locum cover. I wish to strongly restate the Government’s commitment to mental health. This is reflected in the allocation of an additional €200 million for mental health services since 2012. While this amount is significant by any standard I will continue to press for further resources annually in line...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Psychological Services (2 May 2018)

Jim Daly: ...health difficulties will require referral to secondary care services. To address the current waiting lists for psychology services in primary care settings, additional Government funding of €5 million has been made available for the recruitment of 20 staff grade psychologists and 114 assistant psychologists. I understand that the vast majority of these posts were filled during the...

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