500. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE intend organising information sessions on the fair deal nursing home scheme for the general public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48644/26]
Topics / Nursing Homes
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsNursing Homes
326 questions from 83 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 15 October 2026.
326
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323 written, 3 oral
83
TDs have asked
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Independents counted together
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| January 2025 | 10 |
| February 2025 | 8 |
| March 2025 | 13 |
| April 2025 | 13 |
| May 2025 | 12 |
| June 2025 | 38 |
| July 2025 | 39 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 7 |
| October 2025 | 12 |
| November 2025 | 14 |
| December 2025 | 12 |
| January 2026 | 31 |
| February 2026 | 27 |
| March 2026 | 11 |
| April 2026 | 15 |
| May 2026 | 32 |
| June 2026 | 12 |
| July 2026 | 13 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 6 |
| October 2026 | 1 |
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752. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase the asset disregard of €36,000 for single people and €72,000 for couples for the nursing home support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47310/26]
1752. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health if she is conducting an assessment of the private nursing home sector and its long-term viability; the number of private nursing homes currently owned by private equity firms; and the percentage of all private beds in the sector that this form of ownership represents. [41468/26]
1790. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the safeguards in place to ensure that residents in nursing homes are not required to leave their place of care due to increasing care needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41618/26]
1791. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health whether an independent clinical review is required before a resident can be asked to leave a nursing home on the basis that their needs have increased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41619/26]
2158. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of the ongoing difficulties in accessing GP services for nursing home residents in rural areas, particularly across east and north Galway and south Mayo; the impact this is having on avoidable hospital admissions; and the measures that will be taken to ensure equitable primary care access for older persons in residential care settings. [43017/26…
2159. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of a persistent and worsening issues affecting nursing home residents in rural communities across east Galway, north Galway, and south Mayo, whereby timely access to GP assessment and intervention is often unavailable, leading to unnecessary transfers to emergency departments and acute hospitals. [43018/26]
239. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the current waiting times for processing fair deal scheme applications through the HSE South West Nursing Homes Support Office, given that approximately 558 applications were processed in Cork and Kerry to date this year; if she will confirm whether her Department is satisfied that the current common summation process does not cause undue delays for familie…
1140. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of residents in designated centres for older persons who were issued with a discharge notice, notice to terminate their contract of care, or any equivalent notice requiring them to leave the nursing home in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; broken down by HSE health region, county, public, private and voluntary provider type, and whethe…
1141. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of discharge notices, notices to terminate contracts of care, or equivalent notices issued to nursing home residents in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 which were subsequently withdrawn; the reasons recorded for withdrawal; whether the withdrawal followed intervention by the HSE, HIQA, safeguarding services, an advocate, a family membe…
1142. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the recorded outcomes for nursing home residents who were issued with a discharge notice or equivalent notice in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, including the number who transferred to another nursing home, were admitted to hospital, returned home with supports, remained in the same nursing home, died before transfer, or had another outcome; and…
1143. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing home residents who were admitted to an emergency department within seven, 14 and 30 days of being issued with a discharge notice, notice to terminate their contract of care, or equivalent notice in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of such admissions that were due to an acute medical event, a fall, behavioural or p…
1144. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE, HIQA, the National Treatment Purchase Fund or her Department collects data linking nursing home discharge notices with subsequent emergency department attendance, hospital admission, delayed discharge, safeguarding referral or transfer to another nursing home; if not, the reason this data is not collected; whether she accepts that this is a signi…
1145. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of residents of nursing homes admitted to emergency departments in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of such admissions by HSE health region, hospital group and age cohort; the primary recorded reasons for admission, including falls, infection, deterioration in physical health, mental health or behavioural distress, medicatio…
1146. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether any data is collected on cases in which a nursing home resident, family member, advocate or representative made a complaint or raised concerns about care and was subsequently issued with a discharge notice, notice to terminate a contract of care, or equivalent notice within 90-days; if so, the number of such cases in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to da…
1147. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals or contacts made to HSE safeguarding teams in respect of nursing homes in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number of such referrals which related to discharge notices, threatened discharge, or concerns about the manner in which a transfer or discharge was being managed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. […
1152. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of occasions in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 on which a nursing home sought additional funding, staffing support, clinical support, specialist input or other resources because a resident's care needs had increased; the body to which such requests were made; the number approved, refused or still pending; the average time to decision;…
1153. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of nursing home residents in in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 whose care needs were deemed by a nursing home to have exceeded the capacity of that nursing home to provide safe care; the number of such cases that resulted in a discharge notice, hospital admission, transfer to another nursing home or referral to the HSE; and if she wil…
1154. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the specialist supports that are available to nursing homes when a resident's care needs increase, including access to geriatric medicine, psychiatry of later life, palliative care, dementia-specific supports, behavioural support, tissue viability nursing, dietetics, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and social work; whether access …
1160. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of discharge notices, notices to terminate contracts of care, or equivalent notices issued to residents supported under the nursing homes support scheme compared with residents paying privately in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34779/26]
1161. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health whether she will commission a review of the issuing of discharge notices and termination of contracts of care in nursing homes, including the extent to which such notices follow complaints by families, increased care needs, safeguarding concerns, funding disputes, staffing limitations or inability to access specialist supports; whether such a review will examine …
1185. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Health the contingency plans in place in the event that nursing home operators (details supplied) withdraw from, or cease operations at, their Irish nursing home facilities; the statutory framework exists for the transfer of residents in such circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34971/26]
1232. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Health whether there is any further avenue available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35266/26]
1094. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the original planned completion dates for each phase of the refurbishment works at Heather House Community Nursing Unit, the revised completion dates, the total duration of any delays incurred, and the specific causes of such delays. [32706/26]
1098. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the original approved project budget for the fire safety works at Daisy Unit, Heather House Community Nursing Unit; the current projected final cost; the value of any additional works identified; and whether contingency funding has been utilised. [32710/26]