Skip to main content
Responses to parliamentary questions

Questions from Deputy Liam Quaide - PQ 34759-26, 34761-26 & 34772-26

Deputy Quaide asked about nursing home services. Read the HSE response.

Documents

Summary

To ask 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 whether the resident was supported under the nursing homes support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [PQ 34759/26]

To ask 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 if she will make a statement on the matter. [PQ 34761/26]

To ask 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 will make a statement on the matter. [PQ 34772/26]

This is a beta version - your feedback will help us to improve it