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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.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (2 May 2024)

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

Health Services Staff

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

Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a severe shortage of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19873/24]

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

Joan Collins: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the emergency measures the Government will put in place to ensure developmental checks resume in Dublin 8, 10 and 12, given the severe lack of child developmental checks in the area. [19450/24]

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

Gino Kenny: This question is on the severe shortage of public health nurses in the Dublin Mid-West area. This is not an isolated situation and it is the same across a lot of community healthcare organisations, CHOs. I would like to get the Minister's thoughts on the shortages, especially in Dublin Mid-West.

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

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 and 22 together. I thank Deputies Kenny and Collins for raising this matter. On the back of their questions I engaged with my officials and the HSE on this. As per the questions, they are accepting there are shortages affecting the child development checks in Dublin south and Dublin west. The public health nurse service is experiencing significant...

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

Gino Kenny: This has been going for a number of years. There are parts of Lucan, north Clondalkin and Newcastle where parents of newborns and infants have had no checks on their children. That can only be a bad thing. I was looking at the trend in the last five years when it comes to public health nurses. There has been a steady decline in retention of them. That is very worrying because, as the...

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

Joan Collins: It sounds a bit like "Groundhog Day". I have been raising this issue for the last year. I raised it in last March and April in relation to the Curlew Road, Armagh Road and Old County Road health centres. We were told that two teams were to be put into Armagh Road, or rather that there were 4.6 public health nurses between Armagh Road and Curlew Road and they were going to be put into the...

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

David Cullinane: The tragedy of all of this is that most of those beds have come far too late. There is no reason those beds should not have been funded years ago. Everybody knows that when the decision was made to close Ennis and Nenagh emergency departments, additional capacity was needed in Limerick. It was promised that it would be a centre of excellence. It has not been able to perform as that centre...