Home Help Service

13. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health when the HSE will allow the home support service in Donegal to resume recruitment for healthcare assistants to address the growing waiting list for the service in the county.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17182/26]

117. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to address the lengthy waiting lists for home help in County Donegal; if new staff who are waiting on recruitment panels will be allowed to take up positions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17524/26]

142. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a parent accesses home help tuition for a person with disabilities who is not currently attending school. [17439/26]

234. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality where a parent can seek home help support for a person with disabilities under 18 years-of-age. [17872/26]

235. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality where a parent can seek home help support for a person with disabilities over 18 years-of-age. [17873/26]

295. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health to outline plans to review the home support allowance grant rate (details supplied); if she has plans to review it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17526/26]

305. Deputy Johnny Mythen asked the Minister for Health the number of older persons awaiting a home help package in County Wexford, by area, by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17688/26]

811. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has been allocated 21 hours home help but is currently only in receipt of four hours per week will receive their full allocation hours as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16372/26]

878. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Health the number of qualified care assistants that have been Garda vetted and are available to take up duties delivering home care hours in the community, which are on the HSE panel in the CHO5 area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16699/26]

1087. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for home support in each month of 2025, by RHA and IHA, by whether the person is waiting for a new package or additional hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15085/26]

1088. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of hours of home support delivered in each month of 2025, by RHA and IHA, by direct vs non direct delivery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15086/26]

682. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is not receiving enough home help hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13956/26]

1146. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for home support in December from 2022 to 2025; the number of people receiving less than their allocated hours, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12193/26]

1156. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health when home help service positions will be filled in Donegal; the reason for additional staff not being able to take up positions given the long waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12229/26]

1185. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people for each day in January who were medically discharged at Letterkenny University Hospital but had to remain in hospital as they had to wait for a home help package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12490/26]

540. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of persons employed as home support workers, either full or part-time, by community health organisation, for each of the years between 2015 and 2025; the number of home help hours available per week, by CHO, for each of the years between 2015 and 2025, in tabular form. [11159/26]

589. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours funded nationally and in Cork city and county for each year from 2022 to date; the number of hours actually delivered; the gap between funded and delivered hours; and the reasons identified for any persistent underspend or delivery shortfall. [11404/26]

590. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has assessed the extent to which delays in home support provision are contributing to premature admission to long-term residential care; whether any cost-comparison or value-for-money analysis has been conducted; and if she will publish any such assessment. [11405/26]

591. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the governance mechanisms which exist within her Department to monitor home support waiting lists; how frequently data is reviewed at ministerial level; and what accountability measures apply where waiting lists remain persistently high. [11406/26]

592. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether national targets exist for maximum waiting times for home support services; if not, whether she intends to introduce such targets; and the timeline for achieving measurable reductions in waiting lists in Cork city and county. [11407/26]

593. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the way in which current home support waiting list levels align with Sláintecare commitments to care in the community; whether her Department accepts that prolonged delays undermine that policy objective; and what corrective actions are planned. [11408/26]

594. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health what population-based demand modelling her Department uses to project future home support needs; whether Cork’s ageing profile has been factored into capacity planning; and whether additional funding or staffing allocations are planned for 2026. [11409/26]

294. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth waiting for home support each year from December 2022 to 2025, or latest comparable date, and the number of people receiving less than their allocated hours, in tabular form. [10584/26]

304. Deputy Joanna Byrne asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth awaiting home support for each of the years 2023 to 2025 and to-date in 2026 including numbers approved but not yet commenced; hours approved vs delivered; and average waiting times. [10594/26]

379. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their home assessment of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8867/26]