Results 1-20 of 215 for carers speaker:Mary Butler

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...only, with invitations to be extended to a range of organisations, including, inter alia, non-governmental organisations, community and voluntary bodies, and representatives of service-providers and carers. The work of the Reference Group will be advanced through bi-annual national plenary meetings and thematic focus groups. The agendas for the national plenary meetings and thematic...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...as she had a long-standing commitment. The Minister is not opposing the motion put forward by the Deputies. I welcome this opportunity to discuss the important issue of supporting our family carers. I thank the Regional Group of Deputies who brought forward this motion. I think this is a timely discussion. As the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...who have been diagnosed with a life limiting illness from the time of diagnosis through bereavement and death. This policy considers both the needs of the person with a serious illness and that of their carer. The new policy is focused on improving services and supports for patients, families, and carers. A population-based and needs-based approach to service provision is to be adopted....

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: ...and access to services based on robust evidence. This is really welcome. The Deputy will be aware that in my role, I put in place the strategic workforce advisory group trying to support more carers to come into the role of caring. We have an ageing population and one of the recommendations was around the people who might agree to do X number of hours caring but they would not lose...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: ...a long time discussing respite, rehabilitation and the pathways for patients out of acute hospitals back home again. As we know, Clifden District Hospital provides respite beds to allow family carers in the community a welcome break. At present, admissions to Clifden District Hospital have unfortunately been paused due to the lack of staff availability. HSE community healthcare...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: ...in Cork, with pilots across five sites in CHOs 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8. Support from these hubs is designed to be over a short period as they provide targeted and intensive interventions with flexibility to respond to different young people's needs, or parent or carer needs. Ensuring that mental health legislation is modern and person-centred and that the human rights of anyone, child or...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: ...because, where a person in receipt of homecare has a fall, has been moved to hospital or has gone on holidays, there can be challenges for those delivering the care. Issues can arise over whether the carer who turns up should be recompensed for doing so and, therefore, there is a considerable challenge, and change cannot happen soon enough. The Minister and I are clear on this and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: ...Hubs is designed to be provided to young people over a short period of time, as they provide targeted and intensive interventions with flexibility to respond to different young people’s or parent/carer needs. In response to the Deputy's question, the HSE has also committed to offering all Nursing and Health and social care graduates permanent contracts of employment in the HSE. It...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Mary Butler: ...of everybody with care needs are upheld in accordance with their needs and preferences throughout their lives. I am pleased to support the motion. We recognise the invaluable contribution that family carers make in caring for some of the most vulnerable in our society and we are committed to ensuring that carers are fully supported and empowered. The motion covers many Departments...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2023)

Mary Butler: Very important issues were raised by Family Carers Ireland. I will answer both the Deputy's questions. In budget 2024, €1.4 million was secured for the commission on care. We are just working through the final details now, but it will be set up in January next year. There will be three different modules. The first module will be six months, there will be a second module of six...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...services. A CAMHS Hub provides enhanced intensive brief mental health interventions to support Community CAMHS Teams in delivering enhanced responses to children, young people and their families or carers, in times of acute mental health crisis. Support from these Hubs is time-limited, providing intensive intervention and support with sufficient flexibility to respond to different young...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (15 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Tully for raising this really important issue. All of us in the House fully appreciate how devastating a diagnosis of a rare disease can be for patients, their families and carers. There is cross-party support for doing everything we possibly can to help patients who live with this awful condition on a daily basis. As Deputy Tully said, EB is a rare, life-long genetic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (9 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group which I established last year. A new and improved HSE Home Support Tender delivers on commitments for sectoral reform such as payment for travel time, paying carers the National Living Wage at a minimum, and bringing legacy rates in line with the new revised rates of funding.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (9 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...centre-based day care. This was first introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic and is universally viewed as beneficial, improving both the quality of life of clients and providing a break for family carers. Alongside this, I allocated €300,000 in funding to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland to provide weekend activity clubs for people with young onset dementia. This new service...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...am glad that workforce is a focus of today's motion. The Government is committed to improving recruitment and retention. In March 2022, I established the strategic workforce advisory group on home carers and nursing home healthcare assistants. It set out to examine and, most importantly, propose solutions. The group was chaired by the Department of Health and comprised representatives...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Mary Butler: ...the same period last year; — addressing the shortage of care workers in Ireland is an urgent priority for the Government, with an implementation group established to implement the report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants, in areas including pay and conditions of employment; — a new tender for Home Support...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: ...home support today stands at €723 million. I know people will point to the waiting lists, with approximately 3,000 people funded for home care but only receiving a partial package and about 3,000 people funded for home care but we do not have the carers to provide it. It is important to point out that the budget is there to fund those 6,000 people. The HSE provides approximately...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: -----for people with mental health conditions, people with dementia and older people. Carers play an invaluable role every day of the week.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: ...their interest in working on a school-based programme. Student teachers and students in relevant disciplines such as therapy, social care, nursing and others including early childcare workers and carers, were also able to register their interest. More than 1,900 people registered their interest in 2023. Other key additional supports were also put in place for both school and teacher...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Oct 2023)

Mary Butler: ...launch of the Model of Care for CAMHS Hubs has taken place, which provide intensive brief mental health interventions to support CAMHS Teams in delivering enhanced responses to children, young people and their families or carers, in times of acute mental health crisis. The HSE CAMHS Hubs have commenced implementation on a pilot basis. Further recruitment into teams associated with the...