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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| Jul 2025 | 16 |
| Sep 2025 | 9 |
| Oct 2025 | 9 |
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| Jul 2026 | 30 |
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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
Niamh Smyth
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
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]
Niamh Smyth
written
2025-04-29 · to Health
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]
Pearse Doherty
written
2025-04-10 · to Health
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]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
written
2025-04-10 · to Health
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]
Albert Dolan
written
2025-04-08 · to Health
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 …
Michael Cahill
written
2025-04-03 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-04-02 · to Health
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]
Erin McGreehan
written
2025-04-02 · to Health
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]
Erin McGreehan
written
2025-04-02 · to Health
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]
Pat Buckley
written
2025-03-26 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-03-25 · to Children
643. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons the waiting list for home care packages, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [13341/25]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-03-25 · to Health
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]
Marie Sherlock
written
2025-03-25 · to Health
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]
Ruairí Ó Murchú
written
2025-03-25 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-03-25 · to Health
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]
Sorca Clarke
written
2025-03-25 · to Health
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]
Peadar Tóibín
written
2025-03-20 · to Health
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]
Peadar Tóibín
written
2025-03-20 · to Health
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]
John McGuinness
written
2025-03-19 · to Health
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]
Michael Cahill
written
2025-03-19 · to Health
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]
Donna McGettigan
written
2025-03-19 · to Health
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]
Peter 'Chap' Cleere
written
2025-03-06 · to Health
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]
Peadar Tóibín
written
2025-03-06 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-03-05 · to Health
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]
Pádraig Rice
written
2025-03-05 · to Health
178. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide the total expenditure on home care service provision in each of the years 2019 to 2024 by provider type (details supplied), in tabular form. [9918/25]