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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 May 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 matter raised by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Health Reports: Health Reports (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: In addition to the development of new and-or enhanced service provision, my Department has been working with the former health boards and voluntary service providers in recent years to meet specific identified needs in existing services. These primarily relate to the changing profile of the population in these services and in particular increased dependency levels due to ageing, medical...

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 184 and 185 together. Data on mortality compiled and published by the Central Statistics Office indicate that there were 12 deaths by suicide of persons under 25 in County Roscommon between 1997 and September 2004 and there were five such deaths in County Leitrim. Nationally, there were 858 deaths by suicide of persons under 25 in the period 1997 to September...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (31 May 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 matter referred to by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: Demand for speech and language therapists was recognised in the Bacon report in 2002 when it was recommended that training places for speech and language therapists increase from 25 per year to 105 places per year. To address this shortfall in supply, three new schools of speech and language therapy were opened in 2003, in National University of Ireland in Galway and Cork and University of...

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Senator Kitt for raising this matter on the Adjournment. I am responding to it on behalf of my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. Following the closure by the Bon Secours order of the Grove hospital in Tuam, the former Western Health Board, now the HSE, western area, which is responsible, in the first instance, for the provision of health...

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: It was something akin to a PPP. The Tánaiste asked them to be innovative. It would be something like that, but I do not want to circumscribe it.

Seanad: Pension Provisions. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Senator Terry for raising this matter. I am replying to her motion on behalf of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen. The ESRI report referred to is entitled Pensions Incomes and Replacement Rates in 2000, published in May 2005. Page 38 of that report states, "The Revenue Commissioners estimate that the net cost of the tax reliefs for private pension saving by employees, employers...

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation. : Hospital Accommodation. (1 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 115 together. A working group on child and adolescent psychiatry was established by the Minister for Health and Children in June 2000 to make recommendations on how child and adolescent psychiatric services should be developed in the short, medium and long-term to meet identified needs. The first report of the working group on child and adolescent...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: Demand for speech and language therapists was recognised in the Bacon report in 2002 where it was recommended that training places for speech and language therapists increase from 25 per year to 105 per year. In order to address the shortfall in supply, three new schools of speech and language therapy were opened in 2003, in the National University of Ireland in Galway and Cork and the...

Suicide Prevention: Statements. (2 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I welcome the opportunity to make a statement in this House concerning the level of suicide in Irish society. Suicide is a serious social problem in our country. In 2003, the number of registered deaths in Ireland attributed to suicide was 444. This high incidence of suicide in the population is not confined to Ireland but is a growing global problem. A disturbing feature is the male suicide...

Suicide Prevention: Statements. (2 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Deputies who contributed to the debate. I would welcome a debate at any time and obviously we have not had enough time this afternoon. Several other speakers wished to contribute. In my initial remarks I welcomed the President's intervention in calling a forum and the points made by Dr. Bates on the "Marian Finucane" programme recently. I hope the other speakers were not insinuating...

Suicide Prevention: Statements. (2 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy should bear with me, I did not interrupt anyone over the last two hours. Many of the recommendations are ongoing. There are several recommendations on training doctors. That will take years to do. I have strong views on the education of doctors and their participation in the mental health area. I have said that training of doctors in the psychiatric area has been taken over by the...

Suicide Prevention: Statements. (2 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I agree that over the years, there has been little leadership in the area of mental health. I am giving that leadership. While there are no instant fixes, I want to do it in collaboration with many people, especially voluntary groups. We must work with them in driving forward the positive mental health message. As the economy has progressed, those who have not succeeded, in society's view,...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Jun 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 personal assistance services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

MRSA Incidence. (14 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Deputy McGuinness for raising this matter and I am happy to have the opportunity to respond. The strategy for the control of antimicrobial resistance in Ireland, SARI — including MRSA — was launched by the Department of Health and Children in June 2001. Since then, approximately €20 million in funding has been made available under the strategy. This SARI funding is in addition...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Psychological Service: Psychological Service (14 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the HSE to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Mental Health Statistics: Mental Health Statistics (14 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 184 and 185 together. The number of patients admitted to each psychiatric admission unit nationally together with the percentage of involuntary admissions to such units as requested by the Deputy from 2000 to 2003 are as follows: Health Board Hospitals 2000 % Invol 2001 % Invol 2002 % Invol 2003 % Invol Cluain Mhuire Family Centre 396 12.6 423...