Results 1-20 of 29 for sligo speaker:Anne Rabbitte

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (7 Feb 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...children's respite every second week. That is why I tasked the HSE in 2023, particularly in the Senator's area of CHO 1, to draft current need of actions to do with respite in Counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan. To be fair to the disability manager in the Senator's area, Edel Quinn, she prioritised the case for needing a stand-alone children's respite house in County...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...children have to leave and share services on a week on, week off basis. I have raised that with disability services. The way community healthcare organisation, CHO, 1 is divvied out, we have Donegal, Sligo-Leitrim and Cavan-Monaghan. That is how the area has always been looked at. It has never been looked at on a county-by-county basis or within the old catchment areas. The Deputy...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...when I do not address where we are with the delivery of services and what services are under pressure. Deputy Tully is quite right. CHO 1 is quite complex because it is divided into the areas of Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim and west Cavan, and Cavan and Monaghan. The Deputy is right in what she is saying. We cannot operate children's respite services in counties Cavan and Monaghan if they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (16 May 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...and protected. HIQA published 33 inspection reports from January to March 2023 on disability services designated centres in the community healthcare system in counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo. The findings of HIQA’s regulatory programme and the mechanisms put in place by the HSE may inform wider safeguarding practice, governance and policy, as appropriate. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Apr 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...believe in the use of hydrotherapy pools. She is correct that a number of hydrotherapy pools around the country have not reopened after Covid. I ask her to bring me the details of the pool in Sligo. I have no problem working with her, and neither does with the HSE, to make sure that this and other pools are reopened.

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...yield significant gains in terms of the numbers treated outside of emergency departments and the potential savings that could be accrued. I take on board the point raised by Deputy Harkin regarding Sligo-Leitrim and will bring it back to the Minister. The continued implementation of Sláintecare reforms means that community-based care options will continue to expand and the NAS...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Services for Children with Disabilities (15 Feb 2023)

Anne Rabbitte: ...'s respite care in the Cavan and Monaghan area. The Deputy happens to be in community healthcare organisation, CHO 1, which covers a large number of counties. It covers Leitrim, Donegal and Sligo as well as Cavan and Monaghan. We have a plan to address children's respite services. Our first move was to source funding for Little Wonders Early Intervention Centre to allow it to provide...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (14 Dec 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...but a fantastic model has been developed in Leitrim and it can be extended. I have met with the operators of fantastic Local Link services in CHO 1. I see how well that is working in Donegal and Sligo. The system is working very well. At the same time, some people in those areas are being charged almost €1,000 per year while people in Galway are not being charged a single euro....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (15 Nov 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...Exchequer funding under the new NDP will also facilitate continued projection and renewal of our national roads infrastructure, including motorways, in line with Government policy. The N4 Dublin to Sligo road is a national primary route which connects to the N5 to Westport and the N6 to Galway and Athlone. It is a critical strategic corridor from Dublin to the north-west region and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...news regarding respite care in south Leitrim. The Deputy was there that day. We were very fortunate that when we all sat around the table we could find solutions. The solutions were within the Sligo site. Everybody was pleased about that. My understanding is that one of those houses is being worked on as we speak. The HSE told me it would be January, but we agreed that day that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Jun 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...in all areas of CHO1 have been asked to pay €4 return on these HSE transport routes as a contribution to the overall transport costs incurred. Passenger fares commenced in 2008 in Donegal, 2012 in Sligo and Leitrim and 2019 in Cavan and Monaghan. Some service users in these counties are able to use public Local Link services to reach their day service, and they can use their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (25 May 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...CHO 1 for doing this. It meant that no service user lost a day service. In other CHOs they have paid for the transport and reduced the service users' attendance at the day services whereas in Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan they came up with the €4 per day charge in order that people would not lose access to their day services, which was a balancing measure. I do not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ...management was poor. It is clear from the HIQA report that the HSE can be too reactive to issues instead of being proactive. It does not appear to be a CHO-wide deficit as HIQA notes that in Sligo similar incidents do not occur. It is quite clear that safeguarding arrangements need to be strengthened to ensure any issues that arise are identified, escalated and responded to quickly. A...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (5 May 2022)

Anne Rabbitte: ..., respite continued to be provided in a new location called Killygowan Respite Centre, Cavan. Funding was allocated in 2020 to the community healthcare organisation of Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo to develop respite services. The 2020 funding is required to be allocated based on assessed respite service needs across the community health area. This year Sligo and Leitrim...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (30 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: .... Projects of note in Saolta hospitals include ten new beds in Mayo and 26 in Letterkenny, with a further 23 due before the end of the year. Portiuncula has two projects under way to provide 62 beds. In Sligo, there is the building oftwo additional 21-bed wards and in University Hospital Galway, 12 cardiothoracic beds are currently being built, as well as the new radiation oncology...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Educational Psychological Service (16 Nov 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...attention to urgent cases and also to help many more children indirectly than could be seen individually. In relation to the school to which the Deputy refers, the NEPS North West/North Midlands Region (Sligo Team) provides a service to this school. Special schools generally cater for children with the most complex needs. Accordingly, these schools have enhanced staffing levels with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...exists. In general, day service users are in receipt of disability allowance and are automatically entitled to the Free Travel Pass. In CHO1 (Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Monaghan and Sligo) where transport for clients accessing HSE services is a particular challenge due to limited public transport, the HSE works with local Rural Transport Companies / Local Links to provide door to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (27 Jul 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...a professional manner by people who have expertise in transport provision - reviewed continuously to ensure shorter passenger journey times. This partnership with transport providers commenced in Sligo and Leitrim in 2012, and has since been extended to all counties in the CHO1 area.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (13 Jul 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...was no need. What was needed were time savings and the allocation of funding. The properties are there but the services need to be delivered differently. A respite house is being placed in the Sligo and Leitrim area for children with disabilities. This is to ensure the CHO area in its entirety has a decent complement of respite to support the families the Deputy is speaking about.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: ...safeguarding of vulnerable service users in a HSE residential service for adults with a disability located within community healthcare organisation, CHO, 1, which comprises the counties of Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan. As the Minister of State with responsibility for disability, I stand here simply shocked at what I have learned has occurred, some of which the Deputy has...