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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for this question to be transferred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for this question to be transferred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: Symptoms such as paranoia, hallucinations and suicidal ideations are common to a variety of psychiatric conditions for example schizophrenia or depressive disorders. When a patient presents with an illness there is often a number of possible causes. During the course of illness, the patient's symptoms evolve and consequently it may take some time to establish a final diagnosis. Any patient...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive (HSE) is working with the Jack and Jill Foundation to identify and prioritise the needs of each child on a case-by-case basis. The HSE will work closely with Jack and Jill to ensure that no child is hospitalised for want of adequate home support, provided by either Jack and Jill or the HSE. However, if a child needs hospital care, the HSE will provide this. I am...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: My Department does not directly fund agencies or organisations such as the one referred to by the Deputy. The Health Service Executive does provide funding to this organisation, accordingly as this is a service matter it has been referred to the Executive for direct reply.

Seanad: Fair Deal Nursing Home Scheme: Statements (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Cathaoirleach and Senators for giving me the opportunity to make a statement on the fair deal nursing home support scheme. I acknowledge that the events of the past few weeks have been very worrying for older people and their families owing to the uncertainty surrounding the funding of the scheme. As I am sure Senators are aware, the HSE recommenced issuing approvals last Monday...

Seanad: Fair Deal Nursing Home Scheme: Statements (Resumed) (16 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank everybody who spoke. Every contribution was extremely worthwhile, far-ranging and positive. There is one point I hear, not only in this Chamber but at any debate concerning the population of Ireland who happen to be over a certain age. People speak about these people as if they were an elusive group which is ring-fenced and protected. We have devised a positive aging strategy...

Alternative Energy Projects (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank Deputy Mulherin for raising the issue. It is something we will have to deal with much more substantially in the future. The seasonal and annual mean wind speeds per county have been modelled by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, which has responsibility for the production of the national wind atlas. The mean wind speed figure might provide an indication for a county...

Enterprise and Investment Visa (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I very much appreciate Deputy Eoghan Murphy's input. I note he has already had several conversations with the Minister in this respect. I thank the Deputy for raising the matter and for inviting me to outline to the House the future direction of the Government's policy in this area. As indicated previously to the House, there is scope for the Department to play a more proactive role in the...

Ambulance Service (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I am taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly. The national ambulance service provides pre-hospital emergency care, as well as emergency and some non-emergency patient transport. Non-emergency transport comprises inter-hospital transfers and patient transport from home to health facility and from health facility to home. It includes both...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 344 and 351 together. As the Deputies questions relate to service matters I have arranged for the questions to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputies.

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The mental health services report all deaths of patients in Approved Centres. When persons are discharged from an Approved Centre they may continue to avail of a range of community-based mental health services. All sudden, unexplained deaths of persons attending a day hospital or a day centre, or other mental health service (including out-patient departments, resource centres, group homes,...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 359 to 361, inclusive, together. On the 13th May 2011 there were 22,277 people in receipt of support from the State towards long-term residential care. Of these, almost 12,800 people were in receipt of financial support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme. The balance were 'saver' cases in public nursing homes (i.e people who were in public beds prior to...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: Data for June is not yet available. At end-April there were 2,920 applications in progress nationally. However, these were at varying stages in the process, e.g. some applications would be incomplete and the HSE would have been awaiting further documentation in order to progress them. As of the 13 May, the HSE had approximately 1,500 applications which had been processed to final stage on hand.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for this question to be transferred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: On the 13 May 2011 there were 22,277 people in receipt of support from the State towards long-term residential care. Of these, almost 12,800 people were in receipt of financial support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme. The Nursing Homes Support Scheme encompasses a Care Needs Assessment which identifies whether the individual has sufficiently high care needs to warrant nursing home...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy's question refers to a matter that is currently subject to court proceedings. It would therefore be inappropriate for me to comment at this time.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The cost estimates for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme are underpinned by a number of assumptions, i.e. the number of people that will require long-term nursing home during the year, the average weekly price of long-term nursing home care, the average income of older people, home ownership rates for older people, the level of married and single applicants and an average length of stay. When...

Written Answers — National Disability Strategy: National Disability Strategy (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Disability Strategy, launched in September 2004, supports and reinforces equal participation in society of people with disabilities. The Strategy comprises of a number of elements, including the Disability Act 2005; the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act 2004 and the Citizen's Information Act 2007. Under the terms of the...