Parliamentary questions

Health Services

Patricia Ryan

166. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health can the Minister urgently enquire into the matter of a person (details supplied). [23154/24]

Medical Cards

Patricia Ryan

167. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 24 April 2024, to provide clarification on the matter (details supplied). [23156/24]

Nursing Homes

Patricia Ryan

168. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 10 April 2024, how private nursing homes are expected to fund access to private occupational therapy services for residents where the National Treatment Purchase Fund and fair deal scheme funding does not cover such expenses, leaving residents of very limited means and their families struggling to cover costs often thousands of euro of occupational therapy, special chairs appliances, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23157/24]

Health Service Executive

Patricia Ryan

169. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the plans for the future purpose or use for the HSE building in Monasterevin, which currently houses the public health nurse services, when that service is amalgamated with the new day care centre in Monasterevin. [23158/24]

Home Help Service

Patricia Ryan

170. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the protocol in place for paying approved home care providers when home care visits are cancelled by the client; if consideration has been made to pay providers if a call is cancelled at short notice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23159/24]

Health Services Staff

Patricia Ryan

171. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the progress made in advancing recommendation ten of the Cross-Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group, to develop a competency framework that recognises home care workers with additional training and specialist qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23160/24]

Home Help Service

Patricia Ryan

172. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time in CHO7 for those approved for home support and waiting for services to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23161/24]

Home Help Service

Patricia Ryan

173. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the number of people in CHO7 currently waiting for home support for longer than three months; the number of people waiting for longer than six months; the number of people waiting longer than 12 months; the number of people waiting longer than 24 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23162/24]

Housing Policy

Patricia Ryan

59. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider putting a cap on the timeframe local authorities are given to carry out approved works for those who need housing adaptations; and, if so, the timeframe he considers appropriate. [22015/24]

General Practitioner Services

Patricia Ryan

133. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if being put on a waiting list for a GP practice would qualify as a refusal (details supplied); and, if not, the reason for same, as the applicant is still without a GP until the practice accepts them from the waiting list, which could take considerable time. [22018/24]

Mental Health Services

Patricia Ryan

134. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the reason funding has been cut to the Kildare mental health day hospital in Kildare primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22020/24]

School Funding

Patricia Ryan

170. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 24 April 2024, when exactly the monies under the ICT grant will be paid to schools that are now short on funds due to expenditure on ICT and special needs equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20995/24]

Special Educational Needs

Patricia Ryan

171. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education to address the urgent case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20996/24]

Planning Issues

Patricia Ryan

205. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify the position around any special conditions and planning requirements for log cabins in County Kildare. [20997/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Patricia Ryan

218. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection to investigate the reason a person (details supplied) has had their carer’s allowance cut. [21000/24]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Patricia Ryan

292. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health to provide details of the waiting times for appointments for the dermatology clinic in Peamount Hospital in Dublin. [20999/24]

School Funding

Patricia Ryan

159. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 24 April 2024, what steps she will take to speed up the late payment of the ancillary services grant and ICT digital strategy grant to schools that are out of pocket due to having bought such equipment, her response merely set out the details of the grants, and did not provide a date or commitment to speed up the payment, which was the question asked; the steps she will take to speed up the payment; and when she anticipates the payment being made. [19845/24]

Housing Schemes

Patricia Ryan

174. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the length of time it is taking to complete new social housing applications in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19853/24]

Housing Schemes

Patricia Ryan

175. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the extraordinarily long time that it is taking to complete and award HAP applications, following approval for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19854/24]

Disabilities Assessments

Patricia Ryan

229. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a child (details supplied) is still waiting on an assessment of need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19846/24]

International Protection

Patricia Ryan

230. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify if he is aware that the owner of a property (details supplied), currently being used to house people seeking temporary international protection, is being paid the sum of €75 per person per night; to clarify if that is not the sum, if he will clarify the correct sum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19852/24]

Health Services Waiting Lists

Patricia Ryan

320. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the current waiting times for home support in County Kildare; and the numbers of people waiting. [19847/24]

Hospital Procedures

Patricia Ryan

321. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the number of shoulder surgeries carried out in St. James's Hospital in 2023. [19848/24]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Patricia Ryan

322. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the number of people currently waiting on gastric surgery in CHO7, in tabular form. [19849/24]

Eating Disorders

Patricia Ryan

323. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the reasons there are only three adult beds for people with eating disorders in Ireland at the present; and the reason there was no funding provided for any of the past six years. [19850/24]

Mental Health Services

Patricia Ryan

324. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health to provide details on the current waiting time to receive mental health treatment in Lakeview Facility in Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19851/24]

Special Educational Needs

Patricia Ryan

65. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a definite location for the proposed special school in County Kildare; the current status of the process; and the timeline for completion of same. [18220/24]

School Funding

Patricia Ryan

66. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education with regard to the removal of the ICT grant in Spring 2023, if she will take steps to speed up the payment of the late payment of the ancillary services grant and ICT digital strategy grant to schools that are running out of funds due to having purchased ICT and special needs equipment in anticipation of receiving the ICT grant as in the case of a school (details supplied). [18221/24]

Vacant Properties

Patricia Ryan

82. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority houses currently boarded up in County Kildare; and the timeline for those houses being ready for allocation. [18219/24]

Social Welfare Appeals

Patricia Ryan

105. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the unemployment benefit payments of a school caretaker (details supplied) are not going into their account when they are on annual leave. [18211/24]

Hospital Transfers

Patricia Ryan

166. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 22 November 2023, if he will provide an update on the current situation; the number of residents who have been moved already, those who have yet to be moved, and any whom have sadly passed away in the interim (details supplied). [18214/24]

Hospital Transfers

Patricia Ryan

167. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health with regard to Cherry Orchard nursing home and the planned removal and relocation of elderly and vulnerable nursing home residents, the status of any engagement he and/or his Department have had with the affected persons and their families, advocates or representatives since the situation arose in late 2023, and in the intervening time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18215/24]

Medical Cards

Patricia Ryan

168. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the protocols for reimbursement of fees for blood tests for medical card holders; and if the procedure can be simplified. [18216/24]

Health Services

Patricia Ryan

169. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the number of hours for each public health nurse in CHO7; and if these hours will be increased in light of the population increase, in tabular form. [18217/24]

Health Services

Patricia Ryan

170. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the current number of applications for dementia care nurses in the CHO7 area, and in particular County Kildare, in tabular form. [18218/24]

School Enrolments

Patricia Ryan

174. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education the measures, if any, in place to deal with the fact that a school (details supplied) is already at maximum pupil capacity now and cannot accept any pupil from even its main feeder primary school, even considering the other two schools in the area. [17084/24]

Schools Building Projects

Patricia Ryan

175. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify, with regard to the new school premises built in Kildare town to house a school (details supplied) whose building is being reclaimed for Army use, whether the school will be accepting pupils from the Kildare town area at its new location, not just pupils from the Suncroft and Curragh areas. [17085/24]

Schools Building Projects

Patricia Ryan

176. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify, with regard to claims being made that a new building for a school (details supplied) in Kildare is a new school for Kildare town, whether it is a new school or just the old school being accommodated in new premises. [17086/24]

School Staff

Patricia Ryan

177. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education to outline any measures she or her Department are considering to offer incentives to teachers to fill the many vacant teaching posts in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17087/24]

Emergency Accommodation

Patricia Ryan

209. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures, if any, in place to address the fact there is no available emergency accommodation in the whole of County Kildare, while families are being forced to present at local Garda stations and sleep on the floor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17088/24]

International Protection

Patricia Ryan

277. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to state clearly if it his intention to use any other single residential properties, similar to the premises at a location (details supplied), to house people seeking temporary international protection; and, if so, where are the locations; and the number of people to be placed in each location. [17089/24]

Low Pay Commission

Patricia Ryan

112. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide, in tabular form, the capital costs and initial set-up costs for the Low Pay Commission from set-up in 2020. [15913/24]

Low Pay Commission

Patricia Ryan

113. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide, in tabular form for the years 2020 to 2024, the costs of staffing the offices of the Low Pay Commission, to include initial start-up costs, office costs, CEO appointments and all other relevant costs. [15914/24]

Medical Cards

Patricia Ryan

168. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if there are any plans to restore the chiropody visits for older medical card holders to four visits per year, as older people, especially diabetic patients, are experiencing mobility issues caused by the extended time between appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15680/24]

Disabilities Assessments

Patricia Ryan

169. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether there are any plans to provide community occupational therapy services to private nursing homes, as these visits cost a minimum of €500 per assessment and are often beyond the means of residents who would badly need them. [15681/24]

Mental Health Services

Patricia Ryan

170. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health to clarify the reason an organisation (details supplied) does not provide mental health services to private nursing homes in Kildare, but does provide that service in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15682/24]

Nursing Homes

Patricia Ryan

171. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to address the issue where private nursing home residents do not have access to transport to attend out-patient appointments and/or small day-ward procedures, meaning they have to use taxis and/or ambulances (if necessary) at great personal expense (approximately €800 per case), such expenses are not covered by the Fair Deal Scheme funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15683/24]

Fire Safety

Patricia Ryan

172. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify, with regard to HIQA and fire safety requirements in nursing homes/care facilities, which authority is authorised to give fire safety clearance certificates: the local fire services inspection officer or a HIQA-appointed fire safety officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15684/24]

Schools Building Projects

Patricia Ryan

458. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education the date for the official opening of the new primary school in Monasterevin, County Kildare. [14305/24]

School Enrolments

Patricia Ryan

459. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Education the number of pupils the new primary school soon to be opened in Monasterevin, County Kildare will accommodate. [14306/24]