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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 227. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures and-or plans that he or the Government have in place, or intend to introduce, to assist the many struggling mortgage holders who find themselves again facing uncertainty following the sale of their mortgage to a vulture fund by the original lender; the options available to these mortgage holders if the vulture fund fails or refuses to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of family home mortgages, by county, that are now in the hands of vulture funds in 2023, in tabular form; the number of those mortgages that are or were the subject of alternative payment arrangements or split or shelved portion mortgages prior to their being sold to vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26362/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or the Government have plans or intentions, given our increasing ageing population, to establish a distinct unit to operate together across both his Department and the Department of Health to provide for a joint plan to ensure the provision of age-friendly independent and supported-living environments; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable homes that have been delivered, per county, in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26361/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Government has plans to review the criteria for home care workers' entitlement to DSP payments (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25551/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dementia advisors there are for each CHO area, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [26360/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 785. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 20 April 2023, the number of hours that were provided in 2022 on intensive home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 786. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for an eye-specialist/optician appointment for each CHO area, in tabular form; the reason there is a delay in such appointments being allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport can be provided to a child (details supplied) from their home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25331/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people on the social housing lists currently subject to notices-to-quit in County Kildare; the likelihood of those people/families being socially housed before the expiration of their notice, or what other alternatives in terms of emergency accommodation are available to them to prevent their falling into...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 246. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the healthy age friendly homes programme, the amount of resources under the programme that have been allocated; and the number of older people that have benefitted from the scheme. [25475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 248. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the recent withdrawal of a nursing home (details supplied) in Cork from the fair deal scheme due to the difference between the amounts paid per resident in private nursing homes compared with HSE public ones, if he can clarify the parameters around which the amounts are based for each payment; the measures the Government will consider putting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 249. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive home support packages that have been delivered to date; the number of intensive home care hours that have been delivered to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the new national safeguarding policy for the health and social care sector, as promised in budget 2023, with particular emphasis on the safeguarding of adults and older people, if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional adult day care places for older people and dementia/Alzheimer's sufferers provided in CHO7 since Budget 2023, in tabular form; and the locations and accessibility for service users of those places, as such centres play a vital role in enabling older people and others with disabilities to live independently at home, while being able...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 170,000 additional meals on wheels allocated to CHO 7 in budget 2023, covering 34 services, which have been drawn down in the intervening time, in tabular form. [25474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 292. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has developed and-or instituted a medium three-to-five-year-term recruitment plan aimed at increasing direct provision of home care support and to ensure the HSE has a minimum capacity in each CHO or RHA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (18 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on actions that are to be taken to address the recruitment and retention crisis in the retained fire service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23639/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the shortage of special needs and ASD school places in Kildare South, when he anticipates the ASD unit in a school (details supplied) will be ready to accept pupils; the timeframe surrounding it; if he has plans in place to cater for the parents children needing places, should the opening of the unit be delayed who have nowhere else to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 253. To ask the Minister for Health further to your reply to my previous question confirming there are no mental health services for lorry drivers whose mental health has been badly affected by other drivers committing suicide by crashing into them, if he envisages any future grants or resources being put in place to assist the Irish Road Haulage Association in helping their members who have...