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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...was published on the 7thof March is the next stage of this new multi-annual approach. Under the Plan, the Department of Health is funding the HSE and NTPF to deliver services to remove c. 1.66 million patients from waiting lists, resulting in a projected reduction of just over 10% by year-end to c.621,000 people. This is building on the reductions in the waiting lists achieved in Q4 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...assists patients to access emergency dental treatment by directly contacting private contractors or arranging treatment to be provided by HSE-employed dentists. An additional allocation of €15 million has been made in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a once-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...;s lives. Prioritisation of women’s health is further supported through the significant investment contained within Budget 2022 and 2023,which allocated €31m and €69.2m respectively in funding for new developments in Women's Health. This includes: 2022:€8.66 million additional funding for the National Maternity Strategy.€9 million to fund access to free...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: My Department has allocated €5 million to the Higher Education Authority for mental health and well-being services this year in Higher Education Institutes. As autonomous bodies, the internal disbursement of mental health and well-being funding, including the funding of student services, such as support for people dealing with gambling addiction, is a matter for each Institute so...

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...their interests, and that is the primary function of it. This legislation will increase the number of judges in the country to 190, and I welcome that. Let us recognise that we have a population of 5 million in this country, which means that with 190 judges, we have about four judges per 100,000 people. That is considerably below other European countries. It is probably the lowest of...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...crisis that the Minister, Deputy McGrath, and other Ministers acknowledge is the biggest crisis facing this country. At our recent Labour Party conference I set out an ambitious programme to deliver 1 million homes over ten years, based on the Government's own projections of 50,000 new builds and 50,000 refurbishments and deep retrofits per year. These are the Government's own figures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (19 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: ...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 24-hour...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rail Network (19 Apr 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...Department does not have detailed records relating to the project referred to by the Deputy but I understand that in 2006 the Department for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs announced provision of €5 million under the CLÁR programme to support essential clearance and preservation works on the Claremorris to Collooney stretch of the Western Rail Corridor. The works were...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...from my Department to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. This transfer took effect from 1 March this year and involves the transfer of approximately €2.650 million of funding from Vote 38 to Vote 40 - essentially the transfer of disability services. Notwithstanding this transfer, the gross health Vote for 2023 is €21.358 million....

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Collins: ...alternative housing for them to fall back on. The RTB stated that it received 9,000 active notices to quit due to the lifting of the eviction ban. The estate agents, Sherry Fitzgerald, estimate 15,000 tenancies this year will be lost. The councils admit they have little or no emergency accommodation places left. The Simon Community and other NGOs say their services are already...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Michael McGrath: I propose to take Questions Nos. 351, 352, 353, 354, 355 and 356 together. The Debt Warehousing scheme allows for the deferral of the payment of VAT, PAYE (Employer) and certain self-assessed income tax liabilities, including TWSS and EWSS overpayments. It provided a vital liquidity support to businesses during the Covid pandemic and continues to support businesses as they recover from the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Mental Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: ...need. NEPS works closely with the HSE and its agencies to ensure those who may require the provision of therapy or counselling are referred on to the appropriate clinical services for intervention and support. I announced in the budget, an additional 54 educational psychologists to provide services to special schools and special classes as part of budget 2023. I also announced in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Norma Foley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 573 and 574 together. The Department of Education plays an important role in supporting the wellbeing and mental health of our children and young people. The Department’s Wellbeing Policy and Framework for practice has given recognition to the importance of promoting wellbeing in education. The approach set out in the Wellbeing Policy is a whole...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 Apr 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...full advantage of the education provided to them.  The programme is an important component of policies to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Budget 2023 provided €94.4 million for the programme.  The Government recently approved an additional €14.5m to allow access to the Hot School Meals scheme for all remaining DEIS schools from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Misuse of Drugs (18 Apr 2023)

Simon Harris: ...in the area of drugs, and this policy is guided by the national drugs and alcohol strategy 'Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery - a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025'. This strategy represents a whole-of-Government response to this problem area in Ireland. I can assure the Deputy that An Garda Síochána are aware of the issues surrounding...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (18 Apr 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: ...on supporting the sales and promotion of inshore species such as Irish crab, lobster, whelks, inshore herring/mackerel and line caught hake and pollock on both the domestic and export markets. €1 million in funding has been provided through the Brexit Adjustment Reserve to support the initial two years of the Scheme and Bord Bia fully utilised the €0.5m allocated in 2022,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of oral healthcare services and patients of all ages are waiting longer than they should have to, to access care. I am responding to this by an unprecedented allocation of an additional €15 million in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a one-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental Service to provide care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...assists patients to access emergency dental treatment by directly contacting private contractors or arranging treatment to be provided by HSE-employed dentists. An additional allocation of €15 million has been made in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a once-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 Apr 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...assists patients to access emergency dental treatment by directly contacting private contractors or arranging treatment to be provided by HSE-employed dentists. An additional allocation of €15 million has been made in Budget 2023 to enhance the provision of oral healthcare services. This includes €5 million allocated on a once-off basis to support the HSE Public Dental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1747. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 637 of 5 October 2021 and 234 of 22 March 2023, if he will provide an exact breakdown of the service costs of €3.65 million for the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton during 2021, in tabular form; the details of the staff salary costs per clinician and other workers; the details of non-pay costs for that year; and if...