441. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health if care rationing of new home care packages took place in the CHO 8 area in 2024; if so the reason for this rationing or non-allocation of new home care packages; and if this is not currently taking place within this CHO area. [23050/25]
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415. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health in relation to home care assistants providing home support services, the official policy of the HSE in relation to home care assistants providing assistance with eating and drinking to clients with physical limitations on feeding; when, in what circumstances and on what terms, such assistance may be provided within each individual CHO, in tabular form; the …
2038. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of ongoing issues with the delivery of home support services in the Cavan/Monaghan area (details supplied); if she will review the current procedures for assessing and allocating support hours, including the utilisation of available staff resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18871/25]
2339. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was granted home care support but supports are not always put into place; the reason she is not being notified when carers are not calling. [20271/25]
370. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a home support package, which was approved six weeks ago, will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18136/25]
395. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the average number of hours allocated to a home care package in each LHO in CHO 8; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18199/25]
903. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to implement the supports for older people, as outlined in the Programme for Government, with particular emphasis on those living alone; the progress made in areas such as community-based care, home support services, combating isolation, and improving access to healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16763/25]
311. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health if adequate home care will be expedited for a family in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16415/25]
292. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for home care packages, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [15997/25]
311. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health for an update on the home care waiting lists in County Louth, and the number of new home care packages provided from 2020 – 2024, in tabular form. [16125/25]
312. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Health if her Department has plans to allocate targeted funding for rural home care delivery in order to address the long waiting lists. [16126/25]
236. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Health if targeted funding can be introduced for rural home care delivery for and area of Cork and Kerry, CHO 4, given that this region has the highest number of people on the waiting list for home care and that the waiting lists for home care, on average, are more than five times higher outside of Dublin. [14286/25]
710. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of home care hours, as a percentage of total care hours funded by the HSE, that are cancelled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13384/25]
711. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the unpaid cost, money not paid to providers, in cancelled home care hours that are funded by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13385/25]
776. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the funding allocated for personal assistant service and home support hours for CHO5; the means by which hours are allocated, cases are assessed, and appeals made; how needs of the individual are assessed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13777/25]
822. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for home support in each CHO for longer than one month, three months, longer six months and twelve months, in tabular form. [14038/25]
866. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for homecare in CHO 8 in the past five years. [14185/25]
459. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the budget for home care hours in Meath for the past five years, by year; and the number of hours service this supplied. [13072/25]
460. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health if the home care hours in Meath have reached capacity of the budget; and the number of outstanding hours have been requested and not filled to date. [13073/25]
1667. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health if she will review the status of homecare for a person (details supplied); and if their weekend homecare hours will be reinstated given the circumstances. [11530/25]
1705. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of home care hours that have been granted in each HSE health region; the number of these hours/provision that are not being provided as the home support unit does not have the capacity to facilitate them, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11712/25]
1764. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health for an update and deadline for the rollout of the dementia-specific home care package for Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11972/25]
152. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the number of home care support hours provided in Carlow-Kilkenny in 2024; the target in place for such provision in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9869/25]
457. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 12 February 2025, the reason the HSE has not yet written to this Deputy on the matter; and the date upon which an answer will issue. [10533/25]
177. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide a percentage split of home care service provision in each of the years 2019 to 2024 by provider type (details supplied), in tabular form. [9917/25]