Home Care Packages
An official questions-paper heading. 250 questions (2 oral, 248 written), first 2025-01-22, latest 2026-07-28.
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Dáil debate sections whose official heading is exactly these words.
| Date | Debate section |
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| 2025-05-13 | Home Care Packages |
| 2025-05-13 | Home Care Packages |
The questions
Claire Kerrane
written
2025-06-10 · to Health
1434. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number of hours on the home support waiting list in RHA West and Northwest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29645/25]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-06-10 · to Health
1571. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number paediatric home care packages currently being delivered, by HSE health region, in tabular form; the total allocated hours; and the total funded hours fulfilled. [30246/25]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-06-10 · to Health
1572. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the total cost of paediatric home care packages in each of the years 2015 to 2019, in tabular form. [30247/25]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-06-10 · to Health
1573. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to list the HSE-approved providers of paediatric home care packages. [30248/25]
David Cullinane
written
2025-05-29 · to Children
521. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the cost of 10,000 intensive home care hours. [28730/25]
David Cullinane
written
2025-05-29 · to Health
527. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of 1 million addition home care hours. [28729/25]
David Cullinane
written
2025-05-29 · to Health
528. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the cost of 10,000 dementia-specific home care hours. [28731/25]
Shane Moynihan
written
2025-05-28 · to Health
366. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health if home care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27759/25]
Mark Wall
written
2025-05-27 · to Health
579. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health the means by which the authorisation scheme charge out rate for overnights was arrived at a figure below that of a daytime rate; to explain how the HSE allocate a charge out rate for an overnight rate below that of the previous Tier 1 tender and below that of the current daytime hourly rate for a premium awake overnight service; and if she will m…
Mark Wall
written
2025-05-27 · to Health
580. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Health to outline the home support services available to provide family carers with in-home respite supports between the hours of 10pm – 8am; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26742/25]
Pearse Doherty
written
2025-05-27 · to Health
707. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when a home care package will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27198/25]
Claire Kerrane
written
2025-05-20 · to Children
773. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of persons on waiting lists for home care and for additional home care hours in counties Roscommon and Galway; and the average waiting time for each waiting lists in each county, in tabular form. [25966/25]
Claire Kerrane
written
2025-05-20 · to Health
777. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on plans to regulate home care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25967/25]
Robert Troy
written
2025-05-20 · to Health
783. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that a home support package is put in place for a person, as a matter of urgency, and if a public health nurse can call to assess this person’s needs (details supplied). [25165/25]
Johnny Mythen
written
2025-05-20 · to Health
899. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health the number of people approved for the provision of home care in CHO 5; the number of those people who have received home care provision; the number of those people who are waiting for the provision of home care; the length of time in two-month increments that those people who have not yet received home care provision have been waiting; and if…
Johnny Mythen
written
2025-05-20 · to Health
901. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting home care support in County Wexford; the number of hours allocated in each of the past 12 months in County Wexford; the average number of hours granted to each successful applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26030/25]
Claire Kerrane
written
2025-05-20 · to Health
906. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for home care and for additional home care hours in counties Roscommon and Galway; and the average waiting time for each waiting lists in each county, in tabular form. [26446/25]
Darren O'Rourke
oral
2025-05-13 · to Health
117. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of people issued with a home care package but unable to fulfil it due to staffing shortages, or other reasons, in 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23593/25]
Pádraig Rice
oral
2025-05-13 · to Health
123. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to design a statutory home care scheme, the timeline she is working towards, and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24093/25]
Darren O'Rourke
written
2025-05-13 · to Health
156. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital bed days that were lost due to the lack of availability of home care packages and availability of nursing home places, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23594/25]
John McGuinness
written
2025-05-13 · to Children
955. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update on the number of hours currently allocated to a person (details supplied); if the service continues to be provided, the arrangements for same including the hours allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23442/25]
John McGuinness
written
2025-05-13 · to Children
956. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1239 of 22 January 2025 if she will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23443/25]
Joanna Byrne
written
2025-05-08 · to Health
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]
Catherine Connolly
written
2025-05-07 · to Health
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, i…
Pearse Doherty
written
2025-04-29 · to Children
1957. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a home care package will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21041/25]