Results 121-140 of 2,565 for long speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., I have a few comments. I fully acknowledge the ongoing distress caused to patients and our healthcare professionals working in that environment. The solution is not just capacity. For far too long in this country, we listened to individual hospitals that were under pressure say there was nothing they could do about this issue and that the Government just needed to provide them with...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to health services, be it home care, GP, community or hospital-based services. In response to this general need, the Government is involved in the biggest expansion of our healthcare services in a very long time. It includes a national programme of primary care centres, an entire new community-based healthcare service, more than 1,100 new hospital beds, more than 26,000 more healthcare...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions covered by the Scheme. These are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies; diabetes...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...– 30/6/2021 period, and - Worked in a HSE/Section 38 organisation, or one of the following: 1. Private Sector Nursing Homes and Hospices (e.g. Private, Voluntary,Section 39 etc.); 2. Section 39 long-term residential care facilities for people with disabilities, working on-site; 3. Agency roles working in the HSE; 4. Health Care Support Assistants (also known as home help / home...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Nursing Homes (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of these policies was fully supported by Government and they are currently being implemented by the HSE. Phase 3 of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing in Community settings comprises: (i) Long-Term residential care settings for older persons; (ii) Community care settings; and (iii) Step-down and Rehabilitation settings. My Department is currently testing the first part of Phase...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...x2013; 30/6/2021 period, and - Worked in a HSE/Section 38 organisation, or one of the following: 1. Private Sector Nursing Homes and Hospices (e.g. Private, Voluntary,Section 39 etc.); 2. Section 39 long-term residential care facilities for people with disabilities, working on-site; 3. Agency roles working in the HSE; 4. Health Care Support Assistants (also known as home help / home care...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...can be looked at and voted on on Committee and Report Stages. I do, however, fully respect the Deputy's right to do whatever she wants in terms of her Private Member's Bill. We all agree that legislation in this area is long overdue. These are complex and sensitive issues for many people. We are aware that at the heart of the details we are debating are people's lives, their need for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Census of Population (25 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...on the Central Statistics Office Census 2022 they had a disability and/or chronic illness who also stated they were unemployed looking for their first job, short-term (less than 12 months), long-term unemployed (12 months and more) and unable to work due to permanent disability and/or sickness, in tabular form. Adults between the ages of 15 to 64 inclusive Total ...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Stage amendments through government by the end of the year. I put a lot of pressure on my Department, and the other Departments were under a lot of pressure to meet that. They did it by working long hours, weekends and late nights across the three Departments. I just want to acknowledge that without that work this committee hearing would not be happening today at all. I also want...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...37: In page 20, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(6) A reference in this Act to a surrogacy, not being a reference to a surrogacy in section 2 or 52(2), Part 8 or 11 or the long title to this Act, does not include a reference to a surrogacy to which Part 8 or 11 applies. (7) A reference in this Act to a surrogate mother, not being a reference to a surrogate...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...session in the Department covering the various issues we have discussed already, such as the posthumous issues and this issue as well. We have been dealing with and teasing these out for a long period. In fact, exactly the issues members have just raised are one of the reasons it has taken so long. There are constitutional issues here. It goes right to the core of the surrogacy piece....

Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: That is right. We have had to think through all of these scenarios as a committee. That is why this Bill has taken so long. In response to Deputy Shortall's point, insofar as we can, we have to anticipate all of this and legislate for it. It is complex. The point has been made to me that some of this is being addressed through the Children and Family Relationships Act as well, hence some...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...is fewer patients on trolleys in the emergency department and more patients up the house in the wards. That is still not what we want, but it is a less unsafe situation than patients waiting too long in the emergency department. As the Deputy will be aware, we have 96 beds under construction. I will get the Deputy the exact completion date for those. Critically, we have also started...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., as well as physical well-being. In December 2022, Government approved a new Energy Poverty Action Plan which sets out the range of measures implemented to meet high energy costs, as well as key longer-term measures, to ensure that those least able to afford these increased energy costs are supported and protected to adequately heat and power their homes. My Department is represented on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the cross-departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants. It set out to examine the challenges in front line carer roles in the home support and long-term residential care sectors. The report was published on 15 October 2022: www.gov.ie/en/publication/492bc-report-of-the-strategic-work...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...29 Memory Technology Resource Rooms (MTRRs) which provide free occupational therapist assessments and advice on assistive technology, to help people adapt to their condition and maintain a degree of independence for as long as possible, while also providing support to family carers. The MTRRs are an important component of the post-diagnostic support framework set out in the Model of Care...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Emergency Departments (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the right time but it is absolutely and undeniably the case that this Government has invested in our healthcare service, has grown it and is reforming it at a level we would have to go back quite a long way to see. Of course, there is more to be done but waiting lists are falling and the number of patients on trolleys is falling. More than half of the population has access to free GP...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Neither I, the Deputy nor those working in our ambulance service would stand over or defend those individual cases where people clearly have waited far too long. Nobody would defend that. On the response times, the core targets the service works to are the ECHO and the DELTA times. They were very close to those times last year. I hear the Deputy's point about going back to the 2015...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of a new team, which is important. The HSE is working on an interim solution, an alternative pathway for children and young people who are experiencing protracted waiting times. They are waiting too long and the current situation is not where we want to be. Discussions are under way with paediatric endocrinology in Children's Health Ireland and with our psychology services to put an...