Joan Collins
Question:644. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE-funded day care centre within CHO 7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form. [17823/24]
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Care Services
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Joan Collins
Question:645. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the capacity of each HSE-funded respite centre within CHO7 as of 10 April 2024, in tabular form. [17824/24]
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Hospital Admissions
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Joan Collins
Question:646. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that have been admitted to CHI Crumlin and have been in the hospital for 28 or more continuous days in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [17825/24]
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Childcare Services
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Michael Healy-Rae
Question:647. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on a matter (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17856/24]
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Awaiting reply from Department.
Local Elections
Questions (648)
Bríd Smith
Question:648. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Health if a HSE worker who is currently employed at the grade of general dental surgeon: 1597, is eligible to run for local election; if there is a list of specific grades which are ‘designated by order of the Minister for Health and Children’; if so, to outline what they are; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17857/24]
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Neither myself nor any of my predecessors in the role of Minister for Health (and previously Minister for Health and Children) have made any orders designating any grade of public health sector staff ineligible to run for local election, in the context of the Local Government Act 2001.
Law Reform Commission
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Fergus O'Dowd
Question:649. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Health if he will respond to the recommendations made in the recent report by the Law Reform Commission on the need for the Government to establish a regulatory framework for adult safeguarding and to introduce the recommended necessary legislation and other fundamental changes necessary to protect vulnerable adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17865/24]
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Safeguarding at-risk adults against abuse is of paramount importance and is taken very seriously by the Government.
I welcome the independent Law Reform Commission’s Report on ‘A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding’ which the Commission launched on 17 April. The Commission's report and recommendations are comprehensive and wide-ranging and have relevance across a range of Government Departments, including the Department of Health.
The Department of Health will carefully consider the recommendations the Commission has made that are relevant to the Department's functions and its recommendations in relation to inter-departmental cooperation. I anticipate that the other key Departments with relevant functions will do the same. The Department looks forward to working in partnership with all relevant Departments in analysing and considering in detail the comprehensive and wide-ranging recommendations and draft legislation that the Commission has published in its Report.
The Deputy may also wish to note that, separately, the Department of Health, in liaison with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, is at an advanced stage of developing a national policy on adult safeguarding specifically in respect of the health and care sector, in order to further strengthen existing protections in this sector. A public consultation closed on 2 April and the consultation feedback report will now be prepared by the Institute of Public Health. It is expected that costed sectoral policy proposals will be brought before Government later this year, which will be informed by the consultation process and also the Law Reform Commission’s report.
Health Services Staff
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Danny Healy-Rae
Question:650. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if there are plans in place to have a specialist nurse in Kerry for the many people who have Parkinson's disease and at the very least need to have access to a nurse in their own county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17871/24]
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Health Services Staff
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Thomas Gould
Question:651. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Health the reason subsistence payments to nursing students working under the Cope Foundation have not been paid. [17878/24]
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Health Services Staff
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Paul Murphy
Question:652. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, if the staff census is using all the CHO numbers, HSE employees only or non-HSE employees (details supplied). [17884/24]
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Health Services Staff
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Paul Murphy
Question:653. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, with the new breakdown, if he will instruct the HSE to clarify the reason the numbers are still not matching up; what parameters the staff census uses, i.e. CDNT exclusive or if they include hospitals and-or complex needs schools as well; if so, if the HSE will provide percentages for which portion is for CDNTs, and which portion is dedicated to each additional area (details supplied). [17885/24]
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Health Services Staff
Questions (654)
Paul Murphy
Question:654. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1408 of 20 March 2024, the methodology the HSE used to come up with the figures they arrived at in the staff census for the different categories (details supplied). [17886/24]
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.