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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I have just had a back-and-forth discussion on this issue with Deputy Murnane O'Connor. Good progress is being made. I know there are still parents who are anxiously waiting. I fully accept that and we must get to all of these children. It is important to note that in the lifetime of this Government, the number of children waiting has fallen by 44%. That is great to see. In the Dublin...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. That meeting sounds very positive. Long ago I used to believe the budget was set each autumn but I know work on the new budget has already begun. It is positive the Minister of State has had those negotiations and talks. Even though we are talking about our country's older population, a comparison could be drawn with childcare at the other end of the age...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Mary Butler: I am conscious of the financial challenges faced by the nursing home sector but this year, the budget will be €1.5 billion to support 22,700 people under the fair deal scheme. There was an additional €45 million provided last year to increase the rates of fair deal. Many of the nursing homes which renegotiated saw an uplift, in rural areas of between 8% and 9% and in urban...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Can I correct the record? I said "public childcare" but I meant childcare providers that are engaged with ECCE contracts. There is no public childcare per se.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: While we are correcting things on equity, I made a mistake. I forgot to let in Deputy Murnane O'Connor. She can come in now but I will not bring in the Minister of State again.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: You are very good. Thank you very much. It was good the Minister of State spoke of voluntary homes and care homes, such as those in Carlow and Kilkenny, and I thank her for the funding. Deputy Crowe spoke of care homes needing funding. We all respect the HIQA reports and whatever but I spoke to the Minister of State recently about looking at local authority grants for when a HIQA...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Charitable and Voluntary Organisations

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the reason youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin ETB channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels; and what detailed measures the Government is putting in place that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: I ask why youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin Education and Training Board channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels. What detailed measures is the Government putting in place so that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of funding?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Crowe and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for their kind comments. I thank Deputy Collins for tabling this question. Following many months of extensive negotiations in the WRC an agreement was reached in November 2023 which saw an increase in funding for pay of staff in section 39 organisations, as well as section 10 and section 56...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: That is interesting. I raised this issue on Leaders' Questions again a couple of weeks ago. The way the funding seems to operate with section 10, section 39 and section 56 organisations and all the private charitable status groups makes it difficult to see where an 80% increase in an area has to be met through existing funding. My understanding is the Department of Health has the funding....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Colm Burke: Officials from the Departments of Health and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, the HSE and Tusla were invited to attend a WRC process on 16 October 2023 following similar engagements with trade unions representing section 39 and section 56 bodies in recent months. Following productive engagements with the WRC, strike action was averted. This is a recognition of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: Pre-2009 and the crash, all these workers were linked in with public sector pay and got increases as public sector workers got their increases. That is my understanding from talking to people in the canal drugs task force and other task forces. That link was broken in 2009. I am sure the Minister of State will agree it is a serious issue that these workers have not had their pay restored...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputies Collins and Kenny. This is a serious issue and I fully accept the Deputies' representations. I absolutely take Deputy Collins's point. We cannot have children not getting these developmental checks, we cannot have parents who are worried and we certainly cannot have the kinds of delays the Deputy has referenced. I will commit to taking this up at a senior level within the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I received a response to a parliamentary question on the issue of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West. I was slightly shocked at the response from the HSE. It said that, in that particular area, Dublin Mid-West, it had not recruited one public health nurse. It is a really damning indictment of where we are at if the HSE cannot recruit one. Zero have been recruited. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: The Minister replied to me last May saying that the HSE had established a community nursing national oversight group in 2022. What has that group done? We have known that there is a crisis in public health nursing for the last two, three and four years. What are we doing to fundamentally resolve that issue? It is a postcode thing. Children in areas like Drimnagh, Crumlin, Walkinstown and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I agree that it is not good enough. We need a resolution to this and we need it more quickly than one is now coming about. I will raise it with the HSE and come back to the Deputies with a note. If they would like, I will set up a meeting with HSE officials so that they can explain exactly where we are. Other parts of the country are not experiencing this difficulty. Some might be but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: GPs will not accept parents going to them to look for developmental checks. Parents have tried that. That is not an option.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not proposing that they ask GPs to do the developmental checks. What I mean is that, if parents see something with their child that they are concerned about, they should go to the GP. I am not asking the GPs to replace the public health nurses in providing the general checks.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Joan Collins: It is left to the parents to ascertain if their children are not well.