749. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if all HSE safeguarding teams in community healthcare organisations are now fully integrated into the six new HSE regions; if not, the issues holding up the process; and the additional skills and training planned for HSE safeguarding staff to deal with complex financial issues arising from safeguarding. [13656/25]
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750. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health if she has considered the report of the Law Reform Commission of April 2024 “A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding”; and if she intends to bring forward legislation to establish a National Adult Safeguarding Agency independent of the HSE; and, if so, the timeframe for the enactment of such legislation and the establishment of such an agency. [13657/25]
751. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the total cost of the HSE’s National Safeguarding Office computerised system for recording and analysing reports of abuse of vulnerable adults, from project definition to final testing and implementation; the members of the project board that oversaw the project; the number of times it met; and if the minutes of these meetings will be made public. [13658/25]
752. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Health the total number of social workers currently employed in the HSE and HSE-funded hospitals and social care services; the number of social workers currently employed in each level 4, level 3 and level 2 hospital in each of the six new HSE regions; the comparable number employed in 2020; and her plans to expand social work services in the community. [13659/25]
753. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health if dental treatment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [13661/25]
754. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the measures she will enact to ensure both medical card and non-medical card patients who are aged-out of childhood dental services due to excessive waiting lists maintain their entitlement, that their treatment regime is uninterrupted, that their waiting time is taken into account when they are moved to the adult waiting list and they are not expected to joi…
755. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE respiratory physiotherapists working in Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; if this number will be further increased [13673/25]
756. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Health if she will examine the case of a person waiting on a hearing test (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13688/25]
757. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a facility closing in County Waterford (details supplied); the plans she has to keep the facility open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13726/25]
758. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of systems analysis review reports, or similar reviews, which were carried out in respect of occurrences at each psychiatric hospital or unit from 2016 to 2024 and to date in 2025; the number therein that were commissioned following the death of a patient, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13756/25]
759. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the staff allocated to the home based treatment team in Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Service at present, by title, discipline, grade; those positions which are currently unfilled; the corresponding figures for March 2020, March 2021, March 2022, March 2023 and March 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13757/25]
760. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the current risk assessment and management policies that guide the home based treatment team in Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Service; when these policies were last revised; if there are plans to review these policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13758/25]
761. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if the home-based treatment team in Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Service operates a specific discharge safety plan; if such a plan mandates active service user participation and-or the participation of family members and interested third parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13759/25]
762. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if an early intervention in psychosis (EIP) service operates within Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Service; the date that this EIP service was established; the number of users that have been referred to this service in each month since its establishment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13760/25]
763. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the total current funding allocation and the final expenditure for Cavan Monaghan mental health service for each of the years 2020 to 2024; the current funding allocation for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13761/25]
764. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the total capital funding allocation and the final expenditure for Cavan Monaghan mental health service for each of the years 2020 to 2024; the capital funding allocation for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13762/25]
765. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the status of the proposed new purpose-built acute psychiatric admission unit on the grounds of Cavan General Hospital; when work will commence on this project; when it is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13763/25]
766. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if she will review the decision by the HSE not to share the records held by Cavan Monaghan mental health services in respect of a person (details supplied) who died by suicide on 18 November 2020, having been discharged from the psychiatric unit at Cavan Hospital with their family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13764/25]
767. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health to outline, given that the stated reason for the decision of HSE not to share the records held by Cavan Monaghan mental health services in respect of a person (details supplied) who died by suicide on 18 November 2020 having been discharged from the psychiatric unit at Cavan Hospital with their family, is based on the position that the person expressly stated that…
768. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if an early intervention in psychosis information pack is made available to family members of patients attending Cavan Monaghan mental health service; if so, the number of families that have received such information packs in each year since 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13766/25]
769. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the number of community support and peer support workers that are currently employed with the home based treatment team at Cavan Monaghan mental health service; if there are any vacancies of these posts at present; if there are proposals to employ additional such posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13767/25]
770. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the community response plans that guide Cavan Monaghan mental health service following suicides; when the current plans were established and revised; if there are proposals to review these plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13768/25]
771. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if a review was undertaken within Cavan Monaghan mental health service on the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on the service and on service-users; if recommendations were made by any such review; the status of any such recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13769/25]
772. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health if there are proposal to further improve WiFi and mobile phone coverage at Cavan General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13770/25]
773. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the staff allocated to the Psychiatric Unit at Cavan General Hospital at present, by title, discipline and grade; those positions which are currently unfilled; the corresponding figures for March 2020, March 2021, March 2022, March 2023 and March 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13771/25]