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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.

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

Nursing Homes

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

Cathal Crowe: 6. To ask the Minister for Health if a new capital funding stream to support the voluntary nursing home sector in meeting HIQA requirements and upgrading facilities can be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19781/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: The Minister of State will know about this question because we recently discussed it in a lot of detail. Will she give consideration to a new capital funding stream to support the voluntary nursing home sector in meeting HIQA requirements and providing for all of the upgrades required each year, which are quite costly? Before I resume my seat, I will congratulate the Minister of State,...

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

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question. I also congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, as I know the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, also does, on sitting here beside us answering questions on public health and drugs. On the Deputy's question, voluntary organisations form an essential and integral part of the overall health and social care system. Historically, the voluntary...

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

Cathal Crowe: We had a very positive meeting last week with the Oireachtas Members from Clare. We met Marie O'Malley, representing Carrigoran House, and Michael Harty, formerly of this House, representing the home at Cahercalla. Both of those community hospitals provide fabulous care. These are outstanding facilities in our county providing healthcare to those at an advanced stage of life who have...

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

Mary Butler: As I have said, the scheme I was speaking about will run through 2024 and allows eligible voluntary and private nursing homes to apply for up to €25,000 from a fund of €10 million to support structural works relating to fire safety and infection prevention. The first payments were made on 28 March, when a total of €1.86 million was paid to 82 nursing homes. That has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: The problem is that for many parents and many children that is not happening. A number of weeks ago I raised the case of Aiveen , a young child with early-onset scoliosis. Her family crowdfunded for her to go to America to get specialist treatment. She got that and is now doing very well. She certainly did not get the support from the HSE. Her family had to depend on the public coming in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Hospital Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I do not disagree with any of that. The families are angry and they have every right to be angry. There is no defending what has happened. We have to fix it and fix it permanently. That is what this dedicated spinal unit is going to do. The team in CHI are meeting other international providers this week. I have told them that as far as I am concerned they have full authority to go and...

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (2 May 2024)

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (2 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023, without amendment.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Great news, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.