PQs on Homelessness 2025
March
To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the range of specific financial supports/grant aid the HSE provides to not-for-profits that operate emergency accommodation in cases where such bodies also provide medical supports such as supervised medication management, addiction supports, and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
September
To ask the Minister for Health her views on the impact delayed transfers of care on grounds of homelessness have on the capacity of the health system to treat new patients and for any research undertaken or commissioned in relation to this by her Department or any agencies under its remit.
December
To ask the Minister for Health if, given the success of the GENIO SASTA Pilot Project it will be made permanent; if funding will be provided in health for homeless initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the results of a pilot project (details supplied); if her Department has further plans to extend this pilot in other areas across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care recorded in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025 in the categories of Home Support Service and Homelessness or Housing for persons aged 65 and over; the annual targets her Department has set for reducing these delays; and the measures being implemented to meet those targets.