Results 1-20 of 21 for portrane speaker:Leo Varadkar

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...be repurposed to increase the supply of housing over the long term. To give some good examples, Fingal County Council is currently refurbishing 12 derelict cottages on St. Ita's hospital campus in Portrane to bring them into use as social housing. St. Kevin's hospital in Cork has been transferred to LDA ownership and the construction of 265 social and affordable homes on this public land...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Leo Varadkar: It does not fall within my remit, but I undertake to make some inquiries about it. It is a long time since I have been in Portrane. I used to be there regularly when I was a member of Fingal County Council. I cannot visualise the derelict houses in Portrane, but if the Deputy says they are there I am sure they are.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Leo Varadkar: It would be a shame to have houses in Portrane that are in State ownership not being used.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...things that will happen next year. We will see two new hospitals open in Ireland next year: the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire and the national forensic mental health campus in Portrane. We will see three major extensions open: the Dunmore wing in Waterford, the new wing in Limerick and the new wing in Clonmel as well. We will see healthcare become more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (12 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...population, but perhaps do not achieve the outcomes people are entitled to expect. However, we are seeing some positive changes when it comes to mental health services. The new forensic mental health hospital in Portrane is almost finished and will open next year. It will come in on time and on budget and enable us to close the Victorian facilities in Dundrum. The waiting lists for...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Discussion (30 May 2019)

Leo Varadkar: .... While, understandably, there has been much focus on one particular hospital, there are three new hospitals under construction, one of which, the national forensic mental health service hospital in Portrane, will be completed very soon. Extensions are being built all over the country, including new wings or new ward blocks in Limerick, Waterford and Clonmel, to name but three. The new...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2019)

Leo Varadkar: We are in a very different space today, with three hospitals under construction, namely, the national children's hospital, the national forensic mental health hospital in Portrane and the new national rehabilitation hospital in Dún Laoghaire.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...I know the Deputy is particularly interested in it, we should not lose sight of the fact that three new hospitals are now under construction, one of these being the national forensic mental health campus in Portrane, which will replace the very outdated Victorian facilities in Dundrum.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...as well. There are other health projects under way, including the new national rehabilitation hospital in Dún Laoghaire, for example, and the new national forensic mental health hospital in Portrane. As things stand, those projects look like they are going to come in on time and on budget.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...health Ministers and is now very much under construction. The new National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire is under construction. The new forensic mental health campus is under construction in Portrane. Some 100 primary care centres are now up and running. It will also involve the additional acute beds that are needed under the capacity review, additional equipment, and...

Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...has been made. As I mentioned, there has been an increase in funding of €140 million a year since the Deputy's party left office. We now have the national forensic mental health hospital under construction in Portrane, which will allow us to close a very old facility in Dundrum. There have been improvements to counselling services, including new Jigsaw sites - one in Cork, which...

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...100 new assistant psychologist posts have recently been sanctioned. That is particularly for the early intervention primary care area. The contract has been signed for the new forensic mental health hospital in Portrane. It will replace a very old facility in Dundrum with a new state-of-the-art one that is now under construction. In the first five months of 2017, there have been 136...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...2001; and the new suicide reduction strategy, Connecting for Life. The outgoing Government reduced the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, waiting lists for those waiting over 12 months and commenced, at long last, the enabling works for new National Forensic Hospital in Portrane, to replace the Victorian institution in Dundrum, the Central Mental Hospital. Other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (17 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...into one Oral hearings in relation to planning completed, Decision expected in Quarter 1 2016. Work on Heads of Bill is underway. 16 Commence works on the new National Forensic Mental Health Services Campus (Portrane) Achieved 17 Submit planning application for the new National Maternity Hospital (St. Vincent's) Work to finalise the planning application is ongoing. 18 Build nine new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (13 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...Tallaght. €1m Dublin Mental Health 2003 Morehampton Lodge €2.5m Dublin Mental Health 2005 Support Hostel, Dunluce Road, Clontarf €0.5m Dublin Mental Health 2005 Meath Community Unit €8m Dublin Mental Health 2005 Unit B, National Forensic Service, Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum €2.2m Dublin Mental Health 2005 Meath Hospital €8m County Care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Services: Quarterly Update (6 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...;s and the satellite centres in Blanchardstown and Tallaght; the new National Maternity Hospital to be co-located with St Vincent’s; the new National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; and a new national forensic mental health hospital in Portrane. It will also allow significant progress to be made on five major national programmes: the national radiation oncology...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...A3 from January 2015. The HSE's design and building construction tenders all reflect these targets and all buildings being procured will meet these standards. Given the age of the old buildings on the Portrane campus, their vastness and total unsuitability for modern health care service delivery, it is generally not value for money and economically advantageous to expend scarce health...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...enhance forensic mental health facilities nationally is a Government priority. This project is being delivered in two phases. Phase 1 comprises core project requirements at St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane, as follows: a 120-bed national forensic hospital to replace the CMH; a new ten-bed mental health intellectual disability forensic unit; and a new ten-bed child and adolescent mental...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...within months, before the summer recess. I hope, with the agreement of An Bord Pleanála, we can start work on it before the country goes to the polls. Work will begin on the new forensic mental health campus in Portrane, allowing us to close the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum. We have been promising it forever, and now it will happen. We are providing one primary care centre...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...for outlying planning permission for a maternity hospital, thus achieving tri-location on the site. The strategic infrastructure development planning application was lodged with An Bord Pleanála in September last for the new mental hospital at Portrane. It is expected that a planning decision will be made in the first half of 2015, after which the enabling construction works and...