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Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Martin Kenny: These are statements on statutory home care. The problem, as most speakers from the Opposition have made plain, is that we do not have statutory home care. That is the issue. What we have is a system where much of the care is provided by private providers and which is not working very well for most people. I have examples of that the length and breadth of my constituency. I continually...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is a very important debate and I congratulate the Minister of State, who is an advocate for the care of older people. She has a difficult job and she fights her corner, and I will certainly always stand up for her in that respect. I have great admiration for her. The care of older people is critical, but the way they have been treated is appalling. If we look at the facts that Alone...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are all going in the same direction.

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I have a vested interest in ensuring we have safeguards in place for older people. We are, thanks to advances in medicine and the tireless efforts of staff in the HSE, living a lot longer. We want to continue living in our own homes and our own communities. We want to be surrounded by siblings and grandchildren. That is the least anyone can aspire to in a modern and progressive Ireland. ...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Crowe: Adequate home care provision allows older people to live with dignity and respect in their own homes. Additional supports also contribute to, and are vital for, independent living. The Government has often repeated there is a commitment to introduce a statutory scheme to support people to live in their own homes and Government members cite the fact that it is in the programme for...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Last week on the Order of Business I raised with the Taoiseach that seven years ago, as Minister for Health, he gave a commitment to introduce a statutory right to home care. Given the failure of that Government and the current Government to follow through on that commitment I asked for a debate on that issue today. We have a debate, but it is not on the statutory right to home care. It...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Devlin is sharing time with Deputy Flaherty.

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine plans for a statutory home care scheme. Supporting people so they can remain living in their own home is a fundamental policy for Fianna Fáil. We have consistently increased budgets for the provision of care in the community through day care centres, meals on wheels and home care. We know that for most people home is the preferred location for...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Joe Flaherty: I join my colleague in commending the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on her steadfast commitment in this area. I know it has been the defining principle of her career to date. She has put the care, protection and well-being of our elderly and the people who made this country what it is to the forefront of her raison d'être in political life and she is to be commended on that. She...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: When the Government came to power in 2020, its programme for Government promised a statutory home care scheme along with various other commitments for fair and affordable home care, removing inpatient charges and medicine costs. Further to that, in 2022 the Government committed to its implementation by 2023 yet here we are, more than halfway through 2024 and close to the end of the...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Pauline Tully: I think we are all in agreement that home support is so important. It can provide assistance with a wide range of activities and allows people to live at home as independently as possible whether they are ill, frail or disabled. It helps with washing and personal care and so on. I wish to say at the outset that not all disabled people need or want home care support. Many do not require...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: I welcome the opportunity to discuss statutory home care with my colleagues across the political spectrum. We may not always agree with each other, but I know we are all committed to helping people who need a high level of health and social care service to live at home for as long as it is possible and safe to do so. Home support is an essential service for thousands of people each day...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: In my view, local authority housing is fundamentally an issue for the local authority to deal with. It should have sufficient capacity to get in early to repair, refurbish or eliminate issues that give rise to mould developing in the first place.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Réada Cronin: What is the Government doing?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: In this Dáil and Oireachtas, we constantly talk about local autonomy and local government, but every time something happens, we want to say the Government must do it. Local authorities have responsibility for their housing stock. It is interesting; in the affordable housing schemes, they maintain their housing schemes and their houses. Local authorities need to do the same. Maybe,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Imelda Munster: I raise the serious issue of dereliction in the town of Drogheda. There are more than a dozen buildings crumbling on the main thoroughfare in the centre of town. An historic building had to have a public safety notice served on it on 7 June. It caused disruption in the town centre for motorists, pedestrians, businesses, etc. The scale of dereliction in Drogheda would suck the life out of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I spoke earlier on this. There is no reluctance to strengthen the Act. I do not believe local authorities have been strong enough in enforcing the Act. That is a view I have. They might argue it takes too long and there are legal issues and so on which can go on forever. There are other ways to refurbish streetscapes and town centres. We also have to think about our town centres,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Earlier, when Deputy Cian O'Callaghan raised the awful, tragic case of Mr. Shane O'Farrell, a number of Members indicated, and the Tánaiste suggested, that Members might talk to each other about this matter. If that is the case, I would be more than happy to convene a cross-party gathering of Deputies with an interest in the case. If people wish to contact me, I am happy to facilitate that.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I meant that in a spirit of-----