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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

DISABILITY SERVICES

HEALTH CHARGES

General

• Health Charges Repayment Scheme

• Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32: Subvention funds
• Other Oral Questions: Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
• Nursing Home Repayment Scheme and people with an intellectual disability
• Long Stay Health Charge Increase
• Health Repayment Scheme Appeals
• Health Charges
• Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed)
• Health Service Executive or service providers are taking money from people with intellectual disabilities in their care without informing their families
• Nursing home repayment scheme and applicants with an intellectual disability
• Health charges and people with an intellectual disability
• Health charges and people with a disability
• Direct payments to people with disabilities
• Nursing Home Scheme – funds paid
• Fair Deal Scheme and disability services

Private Property Accounts

• Private property accounts and notifying family members

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STANDARDS

Standards General

• Services for People with Disabilities and Standards

• Standards

• Standards
• Guidelines on number of nurses available in a facility when caring for people with an intellectual disability

• Standards for Residential Services

• Care Staff and ‘Sleep Over’ Conditions
• Standards in residential services
• Independent inspection of services for people with a disbaility
• Independent inspection of disability services
• Funding allocated to HIQA
• Inspection of services for people with a disability
• Order of Business: Lack of standards
• Order of Business: Standards in services
• Standards for adults with disability on a statutory footing
• Oral Questions: Inspection of disability services
• Inspection of disability service
• Inspection of services for people with disabilities
• Amount spent on quality of disability services
• Adjournment Debate: cost of implementing National Quality Standards
• Inspection of Disability Services
• Estimated cost of regulating and inspecting residential centres for persons with disabilities
• Order of Business: Standards in Disability Services
• Cost of inspecting disability services
• Implementation of standards on a statutory footing

McCoy Report

• McCoy Report
• Reasons for delay in publishing McCoy report
• McCoy Report into Abuse in Galway
• New Inquiry into Galway Abuse

Standards - Childrens Services

• Guidelines for Residential Services for Children with a Disability
• Standards for children in residential institutions
• Definition of a children’s residential home
• Inspection of residential services for children with a disability
• Number of children in care of the state
• Standards in services for children with a disability
• Listen to Our Voices! Hearing Children and Young People Living in the Care of the State in Ireland
• Private Members Motion: Cloyne Report

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report (Ryan Report)

• Motion: Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
• Motion: Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
• Recruitment of social workers recommended in Ryan Report

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SERVICES

General

• Rehabilitation Services
• Services for people with an intellectual disability in Ballinasloe
• Information Guide for Parents on Service Entitlement
• Intellectual Disability Services in Ballinasloe
• Number of HSE staff in Clare in disability services and occupational therapy
• Smart card for people with disabilities to access all services
• Day and care centres in Dublin North
• Idle property in Dublin 15 being used for disability charity
• Plans to open Bracken House, County Meath for people with an intellectual disability
• Increase number of professionals in series for people with a disability
• Change service provider
• Number of adults with an intellectual disability accessing day services in dublin
• Waiting lists for personal assistants services
• Adjournment Debate: Lack of opening of Knocknamann at St. Itas, Portrane
• Staffing of house at St. Itas, Portrane
• Staff moratorium at disability service in Galway
• Number of staff in HSE before and after moratorium
• Adjournment Debate: establish a methadone clinic near DOC in Coolmine
• Review of Congregated Settings
• Organisations funded through HSE and public service moratorium
• Review of Congregated Settings
• HSE disability services for children
• Review of congregated settings
• Review of Fair Deal Scheme
• CEO salary at disability service
• CEO salary at disability service
• Charge applied to disabled persons in County Donegal for travel to their training day or day centres under the rural transport initiative
• Number of group residential homes that operate nationally for adults with physical and sensory disabilities
• HSE transport charge on people attending disability services
• Service-level agreement with RehabCare

Service Level Agreements

• Service Level Agreements
• Service level agreement

Community-based services

• Community Services for People with a Disability
• Assisted Living Supports
• Independent Living Support Programme
• Community Houses in Westmeath
• Move to community based care away from long stay institutional beds
• Home care for children with a disability
• Views on independent living

Funding & place allocation

• Overall Public Expenditure on Disability Services
• Allocation of Development Funding for Intellectual Disability Services
• Budget 2008 funding for residential and day services
• Release for Funding for Service provision
• Funding for development of services in Ballinasloe
• Adjournment Debate: St. Michael’s House
• Order of Business: St. Michael’s House
• Release of Funding to Services

• Adjournment Debate: Services for People with Disabilities
• Funding for Disability Services in South Tipperary
• Motion: National Development Plan – disability services in Galway
• Shortfall in Funding for Disability Services
• Disability Funding Allocation and Mid-West
• Funding for transfer for people with Autism and ASD from rehabilitative training into an ASD placement
• Commitment to provide more frontline staff
• Funding for new adult training places and day places
• Commitment to increase professionals working to develop new services for people with disabilities
• Disability Services in Ballinasloe
• Dispersal of Development Funding
• Multi-Annual Investment Programme for Disability Services
• Adjournment Debate: funding for Day care places for nine school leavers in Lisnagry
• Funds Diverted Away from Disability Services
• Cut in Voluntary Services Funding
• Funding for Disability Services
• Funding and number of residential places provided
• New Residential, Respite and Day Care Places
• Budget Overruns in Disability Services
• Administration costs in Government funded services
• Funding for the autism unit in Clogherinkoe/Derriiturn
• Funding provided directly to groups providing services
• Funding for service providers in Cork
• Ensuring disability funding is spent on disability services
• Funding for Training Programmes in Prosper Fingal
• Adjournment Debate: Funding to Daughters of Charity, Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Funding for Prosper Fingal
• School leavers at Prosper Fingal
• €8.5 million in emergency placements funding for disability sector
• Audit of special needs services
• Funding for Disability Services in Westmeath
• School-Leavers and further training places
• Commitment to frontline staff
• Funding for disability services in South Tipperary
• Adjournment Debate: School leavers in Tralee
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to disability services (Walkinstown Association)
• Cost per week of residential and day services
• Day service places in South Dublin
• Funding in Laois/Offaly for people with a disability
• Further development available to persons with intellectual disability or autism exiting rehabilitative training programmes
• Priority given to school leavers with an intellectual disability or autism for funding over people exiting rehabilitative training programmes
• People leaving Training Programmes
• Grants to health agencies and similar organisations provided through voted expenditure by Department of Health
• Funding to disability services from National Lottery
• Grants to National Learning Network
• Funding to disability services in 2010
• Percentage of HSE disability fund used to purchase services from private for profit disability organisations
• Disability service providers in West and respite
• Funding decrease to Jack and Jill Foundation
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to services in Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Closures at Aras Attracta, Swinford
• Funding provided to disability services
• Withdrawal of funding to a service in Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Cutbacks at St. Vincent, Navan Rd, Dublin
• Adjournment Debate: Funding for the Brothers of Charity Services in Limerick
• Reduction in funding for service in Dublin 7
• Cuts to organisation in Limerick
• Leaders Questions: Spending on Disability Services
• Leaders’ Questions: Funding to services for people with a disability
• Adjournment Debate: Funding to services for people with  disability
• Order of Business: Cuts affecting people with a disability

• Funding cutbacks to a Daughters of Charity school in Co. Tipperary
• Funding to HSE NELouth/Meath/ Cavan/Monaghan /Meath/Cavan/ Monaghan area for disability services for 2009 and to date in 2010
• Leaders Questions: cuts to services people receive
• Cuts to KARE
• Funding to Ard Cuain, Dublin
• Disability Organisations receiving funding from Dept. of Health
• Disability Organisations receiving funding from HSE
• Budget allocation for disability
• State funding to Jack and Jill Foundation
• Disability Services
• Funding for Jack and Jill Foundation
• Efficiencies in disability services
• Funding shortfall to disability services
• State funding to Jack and Jill Foundation
• Disability Services
• Funding shortfall to disability services
• Funding to disability sector
• Funding for Jack & Jill
• Action to ensure cuts don’t affect frontline services
• Steps taken to protect frontline services
• HSE meeting funding shortfall of Jack and Jill Foundation
• Funding shortfall at Jack and Jill Foundation
• Numbers on waiting lists for disability services
• Funding to Jack and Jill Foundation

Day Services Review

• Review of Adult Funded Day Services
• HSE Adult Day Services Review
• Review of Adult Day Services
• Final report of Day Services Review
• Final report of Adult Day Services Review

Complaint Procedure

• Complaint procedures for disability services
• Complaints against disability services
• Complaints against disability services

Review of Disability Services

• Review of Disability Services
• Changes to disability services and consultation
• Restructuring disability services
• Rethinking how services are provided
• Expert group on resource allocation in the health sector
• Value for money policy review of disability services
• Oral questions: home care costs for children with a disability
• Alternative models of care for young children with disabilities
• Control costs in disability sector
• Value for money and policy review of disability services
• Value for money and policy review of disability services
• Report of the expert working group on the financing of health services
• Value for Money and Policy Review of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Disability Services in Ireland
• Direct payment system for people with disabilities
• When review of disability services will be published
• Value for Money and Policy Review of Disability Services
• Views on independent living

Respite Services

• Residential and respite facilities for children with autism
• Adjournment Debate: Reduction of respite in Limerick
• Respite places to be lost for funding reasons
• Order of Business: Respite in Limerick
• Adjournment Debate: Respite in Limerick
• When respite house run by the Brothers of Charity for persons with intellectual disabilities in the mid-west will re-open
• Respite in mid west not fully restored

Medication

• Use of medication

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