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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for funding rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's midland area to investigate...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of services to persons with an intellectual disability and those with autism in the Louth area lies, in the first...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The most recent figures from the national physical and sensory disability database, NPSDD, which is managed by the Health Research Board, HRB, show 1,804 people as having being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In interpreting the data from the HRB, it is important to note that as not everyone in this country with a physical or sensory disability is availing of a specialised health and...

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The number of deaths by suicide as published annually by the Central Statistics Office are as follows: 2001- 519, 2002 — 451, 2003 — 444, 2004 — not yet available. A breakdown of these figures on a county by county basis as requested by the Deputy, is as follows: County 2001 2002 2003 Carlow 8 3 6 Cavan 9 6 8 Clare 13 12 13 Cork 100 77 64 Donegal 15 20 14...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for speech and language therapy rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's south...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As part of the executive's responsibility to prepare and submit an annual service plan for my approval, it is obliged under section 31 of the Act to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for occupational therapy rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: Since the publication of the report of the national task force on suicide in 1998, there has been a positive and committed response from both the statutory and voluntary sectors towards finding ways of tackling the tragic problem of suicide. I am fully committed to the intensification of suicide prevention measures and, in this regard, work is now well underway on the preparation of a...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for funding rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to investigate...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: As the Deputy is aware, Sustaining Progress makes a commitment that "the Department of Health and Children will carry out a strategic review of existing service provision, in consultation with relevant interests, with a view to enhancing health and personal social services to meet the needs of people with disabilities". This review has commenced and it is anticipated that it will be completed...

Seanad: Mental Health Services. (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Senator Henry for giving me the opportunity to outline the position in respect of this issue. Responsibility for the provision of mental health services at St. James's Hospital is a matter for the HSE eastern region and the HSE south-western area. According to figures supplied to my Department, the cost of the St. James's Hospital area 3 mental health service will be in excess of €9...

Seanad: Health Board Services. (26 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank the Senator for raising this matter. The Government has made services for older people a priority and is fully committed to the development of a comprehensive health service capable of responding quickly, fully and effectively to the health needs of older people. In recent years, health and social services for older people have improved, both in hospitals and in the community. Since...

Accident and Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed). (27 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The delivery of accident and emergency services continues to receive attention at the highest political and official level. A new vigour has now been given to the issue by the Tánaiste. Her plan will be the focus of the highest level of political attention this year and I am confident it will deliver results. Much publicity has been given to the number of patients waiting on trolleys in...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 Jan 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Responsibility for the provision of mental health services in the south-eastern area rests with the executive. My Department has requested the chief...

Hospital Services. (1 Feb 2005)

Tim O'Malley: On behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, I wish to respond to the Deputy's concerns regarding dialysis services at Cavan General Hospital. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal...

Hospital Services. (1 Feb 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Deputy Healy for raising this matter on the Adjournment. Agreement was reached in 1996 to amalgamate acute services in south Tipperary requiring the transfer of surgical and accident and emergency services from Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel to South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel. This agreement provided for the development of older people, disability, palliative care and mental...

Job Losses. (1 Feb 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Deputies Neville and Cregan for raising this matter on the Adjournment. The Kerry Group acquired Kantoher Chickens in 1992. The company operated successfully up to five years ago when it began to sustain losses. These losses have grown in the interim and, despite the best efforts of the excellent local workforce, the company was unable to reverse this trend due to its size and the...

Prisons Building Programme. (1 Feb 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I am deputising for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, who unfortunately cannot be here this evening.

Prisons Building Programme. (1 Feb 2005)

Tim O'Malley: He has been here and to suggest that he is afraid to come into the House is somewhat frivolous. I am glad to have the opportunity to reply to Deputy Costello on behalf of the Minister to outline the reasons for replacing Mountjoy Prison with a prison complex in north County Dublin. The Minister has made it clear that he has for some time been planning a move for the Mountjoy site to a new...

Prisons Building Programme. (1 Feb 2005)

Tim O'Malley: It is worth recording that two thirds of the cost price is being met from the sale of lands at Shanganagh Castle. There is no truth in the suggestion that the sale of Shanganagh is prevented by a restrictive covenant. The OPW, which was involved in this process and deals daily in land and property management on behalf of the State, has advised that the price paid could not be regarded as...