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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I am very aware that Long COVID is having a devastating effect on people. To ensure people who need care will have access to it, the HSE has developed and is currently implementing a plan to provide Long COVID services nationally. 2.2 million has been allocated for 2022 and the investment in the service is due to treble to 6.6 million in 2023. Implementation involves the expansion of...

Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (28 Sep 2005)

Mary Harney: In line with Government policy, the Department of Health and Children has been examining a number of procurement options with a view to finding an approach that will deliver 850 additional long stay beds and provide the best services and value for money to the Exchequer. There have been discussions between the Department and the Department of Finance on an initiative which is based on...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2006)

David Norris: ...Government and Opposition Senators. It is important to note that yet again a rebuke was delivered to the Oireachtas by a judge, who in this case indicated that we should have dealt with this a long time ago. We should do so. I have proposed a Bill, which has been revised, and I will propose it in the next session. When I see that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

...a submission for what is called a slow stream rehabilitation unit. One of the problems with A Vision for Change is that it never took cognisance of the fact that there would be what are called new long-stay patients. These are patients who, due to the severity of their illness, require an admission to a psychiatric hospital for a year or longer. In 2004 it was postulated that by 2011...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (30 Jan 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: ...is open to persons earning above €60K per annum or those earning over €30K in occupations where high level strategic skills shortages exist. Green Card holders can, after two years, apply for long term residence. Therefore the earliest date at which Green Card holders will be eligible to apply for long-term residence will be February 2009. No procedure for processing applications...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Care of the Elderly Provision (9 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for the reply. I note the issue with regard to the data collected and the fact that two short-stay beds are currently vacant but the real need relates to long-stay beds because that is the function of a community nursing unit. I have information about a person who will need a short-stay bed following a fall at mass last week when it took one hour for the ambulance to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Rising Cost of Tourist Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2022)

.... We have tried to socialise it across Government. It is important to say the Department of the Taoiseach is very involved in trying to co-ordinate across Government with regard to the medium- to long-term response. However, I will certainly be very happy to reflect some of the issues raised here back to the senior officials group because the medium- and long-term plan needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks (26 Sep 2017)

Mr. Mark Bourke: No, but it was the usual suspects in long-only investment, as the Senator would imagine. For us it was a very successful book-build, and for the Government a sale-on, because it was predominantly sold to people who would hold for a long period of time, whether they be wealth funds or long-only investors. That means the shareholder base is stable, therefore as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Dr. Paul Corkery: Primarily, it is the vet who determines how long the prescription will be. Member states put in place a system where it cannot be longer than a particular period. The practice in most countries depends on the pastoral arrangements. In a country like Ireland, it is usually determined by how long the products will be requited within the grazing seasons. The answer is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Ms Caroline Curley: We put our hands up. We have a number of long-term vacancies. What we calculate by is the number brought in and I know that when I bring in these 79 houses next year, it will be pretty long and it will look pretty bad too. My hope is that we will see a considerable drop in 2024. It is the average of all of the houses so if we have some long-term ones parked up, it...

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)

Mr. Brendan McDonagh: Long-term economic value was the European concept. A very good report was produced by the Comptroller and Auditor General in terms of the acquisition and its key point, which not everyone is aware of, is that while the banks got the long-term economic value, the value we paid the banks for the loans was equal to the current market value of the properties in 2009. We...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...so information on it, its features, incidence and course are still emerging My Department, and the HSE, continue to review new evidence, research and data on all aspects of COVID19 including Long COVID, as it emerges to ensure care is in place for all who need it. The HSE has developed and is implementing an interim Model of Care to provide Long COVID services nationally. This builds on...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (6 Apr 2006)

Seán Power: ...Taoiseach and comprising senior officials from the Departments of Finance, Health and Children and Social and Family Affairs was established last year to examine issues relating to the financing of long-term care. This was to take account of the Mercer report on the future financing of long-term care in Ireland, which was commissioned by the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (30 Jan 2008)

Brian Cowen: ...return provided the level of risk to the moneys held or invested is acceptable to the Commission. This framework has given the Commission the freedom to develop, outside of the political process, a long-term investment strategy primarily based on a diversified portfolio of real assets. Indeed, a long-term State fund with no need for liquidity and no requirement to match liabilities on a...

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (29 Nov 2011)

Róisín Shortall: ...of primary care services with the removal of cost as a barrier to access to General Practitioner (GP) services. Access to GP care without fees will be extended in 2012 to persons covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme and in the following year to patients who receive medicines under the High Tech Drugs Scheme. Access to subsidised GP care will be extended to all in the next phase and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Nov 2021)

Heather Humphreys: I was pleased to announce on Budget Day that a 100% Christmas Bonus will be paid in early December this year benefitting over 1.4 million people in recipient of long-term social welfare payments. The payment of the Bonus this year will cost €313 million. As we know, this payment is an additional help to people as we enter the Christmas period and much of this is spent locally,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (10 Dec 2014)

Joan Burton: I propose to take Questions Nos. 42 and 45 together. The Government’s primary strategy to reduce long-term and youth unemployment has been through policies to create the environment for a strong economic recovery by promoting competitiveness and productivity. Economic recovery will underpin jobs growth. This strategy is working. Employment has risen by about 85,000 since the recovery...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Scientific Research (26 Mar 2015)

Dara Calleary: ...it should surely ring alarm bells. A number of issues arise. We have supported the Minister in the past in his attempts to focus research expenditure on job-related issues but not at the cost of long-term research. For example, in the 14 areas mentioned issues to do with neuroscience are excluded. One of the successes of our foreign direct investment in recent years has been the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (11 Apr 2019)

Dr. Colin Hunt: I am arguing for the return of long-term incentives to the bank. The Minister has commissioned a report from Korn Ferry and that report is expected to be published in the next number of months. We await the conclusions of the report with interest. I should point out that this issue is uppermost in the minds of our shareholders when we engage with them. They want to see...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (1 Dec 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 395. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the long-term illness scheme to asthma patients, given that this is a life-long illness which requires daily medical treatment along the lines of other illnesses which are covered under the scheme, such as epilepsy, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, leukaemia and intellectual disabilities; if he will explain any reasonable grounds for...