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Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (10 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of mental health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the employment of health professionals. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for disability services. As the Deputy may be aware my colleague, the Minister for Finance in his 2005...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: It is the responsibility of health service providers to ensure that appropriate care and treatment is provided to any person suffering mental illness. Where it is not possible for a particular psychiatrist to continue to provide such care and treatment for a patient, the patient is referred to another psychiatrist within the same catchment area.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of speech and language therapy, for people with a physical and-or sensory disability....

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The data from the national intellectual disability database committee's annual report for 2004 which was published on 26 November 2004 identify 474 individuals with intellectual disability all aged 20 years or over accommodated in psychiatric hospitals, 315 of whom have service requirements.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of speech and language therapy, for people with a physical and-or sensory disability....

Written Answers — Irish Psychiatric Association Survey: Irish Psychiatric Association Survey (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I understand that the full details of the survey referred to by the Deputy have yet to be published. From the limited information available at this time, it appears that this survey highlights operational issues relating to the timing of appointments to key posts in the mental health services. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collected by my Department. The expert group on mental health policy is preparing a national policy framework for further modernisation of the mental health services, updating the 1984 policy document, Planning for the Future. The expert group has several sub-groups looking at specialist issues in mental health services, including the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of mental health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I am aware that a report in the matter referred to by the Deputy was submitted to the Inspector of Mental Health Services by the clinical director of the south Lee mental health service. Following receipt of the correspondence referred to by the Deputy, I intend to ask the Mental Health Commission for a report on the matter and will consider the need for any further action in light of the...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The development of services for the management and treatment of attention deficit disorder-attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADD-ADHD, was considered by the working group on child and adolescent psychiatric services established by the Department of Health and Children in June 2000. In its report, presented in March 2001, the working group stated that the prevalence of ADD-ADHD in...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: My Department, in partnership with the National Disability Authority, NDA, has developed draft national standards for disability services, NSDS, in consultation with people with disabilities, their families, carers, service providers, the health boards-authority and other stakeholders. These standards are designed to ensure that services are provided to an agreed level of quality and that the...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of mental health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of mental health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Residential Home Charges: Residential Home Charges (23 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The practice of charging or seeking a contribution from clients with a disability in residential care who had income which may include a disability benefit or allowance had been a feature of the health services for many years. Following the Attorney General's advice that there was no legal basis for such charges the health agencies were instructed to stop charging for long-stay care on 9...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for disability services. As the Deputy may be aware, my colleague, the Minister for Finance, in his 2005...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The review of Carmichael centre has been completed by a consultant engaged by the Health Service Executive, eastern regional area. However, the report of the review has not yet been completed, pending the receipt of outstanding information from Carmichael centre.

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I apologise on behalf of the Tánaiste who cannot be here as she has a prior engagement. I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and to substitute the following: "commends the Government for the significant increases in investment in cancer services, in particular the development of services for women with breast cancer and cervical cancer, and supports the...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (12 Apr 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 has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for speech and language therapy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...