Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 July 2021
3263. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that community services assign a case manager for older people with chronic conditions to assist them with accessing the care they need. [41105/21]
View answerThe HSE's Integrated Care Programme for Older People seeks to design systems that recognise and meet the complex healthcare needs of older people across the care journey. The Programme aims to ensure that older persons with long-term complex care needs will have access to a single point of contact, when needed.
As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is ongoing, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.
