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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Funding (24 Sep 2019)

Finian McGrath: ...The Government's core stated objective is to promote care in the community in order that people can continue to live with confidence, security and dignity in their homes and communities for as long as possible, which is what older people and all Deputies want. There are patients in genuine need of residential care, whether on a long-stay or short-stay basis, and their safety and...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (23 Mar 2005)

Richard Bruton: Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the €2,000 [i]ex gratia[/i] payment agreed to be made to persons in publicly funded long stay nursing homes will not affect their long-term entitlement to moneys owing in accordance with the Supreme Court decision; if the duration of payment will be backdated to the date on which these persons first entered long-term...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Often, when we engage with legislation, it involves amending a range of different Acts rather than waiting for an Act to be comprehensively changed because that can take a long, long time. This is a very welcome and long overdue reform of this area but I do not understand why the Minister cannot deal with all the issues that are before her rather than wait for the comprehensive reform of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision: Discussion with Ombudsman (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...case. We have obligations and we have to receive people seeking asylum. We must, however, do that in a human and humanitarian way. This problem has arisen because short-term provision has become long-term provision. How long are we housing asylum seekers in emergency accommodation? Has that already become long-term?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: A change to this legislation is long overdue. The fair deal is unfair to farmers and small business people because of the way their assets are calculated. We have been working on this legislation for a long time. I am advised that it will be published in January. I fully accept that the Deputy will not believe that until she sees it, and nor will I, because it has been imminent for a long...

Topical Issue Debate: Student Grant Scheme Administration (7 May 2014)

Ciarán Cannon: ...x20ac;2,500 for the student contribution charge. The special rate of grant is a targeted access measure to provide specific interventions for the most disadvantaged students recognising their ongoing long-term dependence on welfare support. Under the student grant scheme, the qualifying criteria for the special rate of grant must include one of the listed eligible long-term payments by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Numbers (14 May 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 577 and 578 together. In 2011, 59,274 patients availed of the Long Term Illness Scheme. The corresponding figure for 2012 is not yet available. As at 29 April 2013 the number of persons who hold both an Long Term Illness card and a full medical card is 19,938. The decision by the previous Government not to extend prescription charges to the Long Term...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Initiative (4 Nov 2014)

Joan Burton: JobPath is the Government’s new labour market activation service aimed specifically at the long-term unemployed and those most distant from the labour market, with the primary objective of assisting such persons to gain sustained employment. JobPath will augment and complement both the Department’s own employment services as well as the services contracted under existing...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (26 May 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The Minister for Health and Children has recently been made aware of a serious shortfall in the budget for Long-term Residential Care for this year. The budget is coming under pressure from, amongst other things, increases in overall costs and increases in net demand for long term care. Furthermore the HSE has advised that the Long-term Residential Care subhead is also funding services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (31 Jan 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The National Treatment Purchase Fund Board was designated under Section 40 of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 as the body authorised to enter into arrangements on the price for long-term residential care services with private and voluntary nursing homes that wish to be "approved nursing homes" for the purposes of the Scheme. The negotiation process is necessary due to the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Michael McNamara: We are consistently told that young people suffer long-term effects. I have no doubt that is true. Do we have the figures on how many young people have long-term debilitating effects from Covid-19? Leaving aside young people, how many people who have overcome the virus to the point of being able to return to their day-to-day existence, be that as students, workers or retirees, are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 May 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the interim guidance plan for long-Covid, published September 2021, does not include neurological rehab and psychological supports and strategies; the data used to inform the decision to provide eight nutritionists as part of this plan; the rationale for the exclusion of the Mater Hospital, which is home to the original long-Covid clinic...

Seanad: Residency Permits. (6 Nov 2008)

Noel Ahern: I am replying on behalf of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform who is otherwise occupied. The current long-term residence scheme operates on an administrative basis. However, one of the most important proposals in the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2008 is the introduction of a new, enhanced and statutory long-term resident status. This status will be available to...

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (11 Jan 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: At the end of November 2011 the HSE indicated that there were 121 public long stay residential care units in operation across the country providing 8,098 residential care beds (this includes temporarily closed beds). Of these, 6,036 were designated long-stay beds under the Nursing Home Support Scheme (NHSS). The balance, 2,062 provide short-term care, i.e. rehabilitation, respite,...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Oct 2007)

Martin Cullen: My Department assists and encourages the unemployed, particularly the long term unemployed, lone parents and other social welfare recipients to return to training or education through a range of measures administered by my Department's social and family support service. These measures include the payment of income support through the back to education allowance scheme to customers who are...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Feb 2019)

David Norris: Senator McDowell can think what he likes. I think there is a long list. Like Humpty Dumpty, what I think goes. Words mean what I mean them to mean, no more and no less. The Government could indicate it is not satisfied with the three names provided and ask the commission to produce another three and so on until the end of the list has been reached. There is nothing to prevent a speeding...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (14 Feb 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Government policy in relation to older people is to support people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. Where this is not feasible, the health service supports access to quality long-term residential care. While the Minister and this Government continues to reiterate our commitment to the future public provision of residential care...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Nov 2005)

Michael McDowell: The person referred to by the Deputy submitted an application for long-term residency in September 2005. On receipt of the documentation submitted it was noted that he would not meet the qualifying criteria until the middle of November 2005. His application was subsequently held by the Department until such time as he did qualify for long-term residency. The immigration division of my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

John Lahart: ...their being relaxed a little. Dr. Holohan might comment on some of the measures that we can take in that regard. Could Dr. Holohan give us a tour through the most severe manifestation of long Covid to date? How long does NPHET believe long Covid will last for people? What are the symptoms associated with it and the regularity of those? What time span for long Covid has been seen to...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (17 Jul 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The Department of Health carries out a survey of long-stay units each year. Each long-stay unit (public, private and voluntary) is sent a questionnaire and the responses are collated by the Department. The aim of the survey is to provide statistics on the number of beds available for long-term care, how these beds are used and the types of residents who occupy these beds. The results of...