Results 381-400 of 1,017,043 for in 'Dáil debates' OR speaker:Mark Ward in 'Committee meetings'

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

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome the reduction in the numbers on the treatment lists and I am aware of the Minister's commitment. He was in Carlow last week and we were delighted to have him down. Carlow needs to have the services it does not have at the moment. While she was not giving out to me, a constituent spoke to me about having to go to Kilkenny for orthodontic treatment. As the Minister said, some...

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

Stephen Donnelly: We are currently drafting the implementation plan for the next three years of the national oral health policy. There will be a regional view but with something as specialist as orthodontic care, the priority is making sure children get the care. We all want care provided as close to us as possible and we must always strive to do that. While orthodontic treatment is, hopefully, one of a...

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

Catherine Connolly: We will move on now to Question No. 10.

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

Richard Bruton: I understood that Question No. 9 in the name of Deputy David Staunton was next and I could take it on his behalf.

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

Catherine Connolly: On a general point, I am faced here with late requests, which means that Members with questions down will not be reached. Deputy Ó Murchú submitted his request in plenty of time yesterday. There may have been a breakdown in communications somewhere. I was aware that Deputy Ó Murchú was substituting. He did everything right and notified us yesterday. I will proceed to...

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

Richard Bruton: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

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

Dental Services

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

David Cullinane: 10. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand public dentistry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19778/24]

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

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What are the Minister's plans to expand public dentistry services? I have spoken to the Minister previously about orthodontic care. I refer in particular to the hundreds of under-18s who are on the waiting lists for orthodontic treatment. In my area, I refer to the centre based in Louth County Hospital. Category four cases are being dealt with privately and huge amounts are being spent on...

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....