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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The prices of drugs vary between countries for a number of reasons, including different prices set by manufacturers, different wholesale and pharmacy mark-ups, different dispensing fees and different rates of VAT. The State has introduced a series of reforms in recent years to reduce pharmaceutical prices and expenditure. These have resulted in reductions in the price of thousands of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The REHAB Group receives funding from the Health Service Executive under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004. The Department has asked the HSE to provide the Deputy with the funding provided to the REHAB Group from 2008 to 2012. Staff in organisations funded under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004, including the REHAB Group, are not classified as public servants. They are not counted in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Application Numbers (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The needs of our older people are, and will remain, a very high priority for me and for the Government, and the resources that are available will be applied to provide the best possible mix of supports and services in a way that most effectively matches the needs and preferences of older people themselves, with a particular focus on enabling people to live as independently as possible in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 335 to 337, inclusive, together. This Government has prioritised the reform of our mental health services in line with A Vision for Change and is committed in particular to the delivery of more and better quality care in the community. Additional funding totalling €70 million and some 900 new posts have been provided as part of the 2012 and 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I will be very brief. The most significant development so far as my areas of responsibility are concerned would have been the appointment of the two directors in recent months, Mr. Stephen Mulvany, who has sole responsibility for mental health, and Mr. Pat Healy, who has responsibility for disability and older people, all very sensitive areas. In recent months, since their appointment, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: We did not discuss it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I wish to make a brief comment on this matter as people are interested in it. We have put in place a counselling service for people with medical cards, to which GPs have direct access. That service is for people with mild to moderate depression rather than they having to go through the whole system in terms of mental health. That service is working very well. It is significant that a GP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I congratulate Deputy Fitzpatrick for asking questions. There were a good many but, nevertheless, they all were questions. I will start with the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, Senator van Turnhout raised. I will ask Mr. Stephen Mulvany to come in on mental health. In terms of CAMHS, and the service available to children, it is not the same all over the country. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Our new chief nursing officer, Dr. Siobhán O'Halloran, and I attended a conference on end-of-life services recently. We were told that very few people out of nursing homes now die in accident and emergency departments. There is a new system in place to ensure that people can remain in what is tantamount to their homes. Figures were produced to prove that very few people among the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (21 Jan 2014)

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 to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Eligibility (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government, conscious of the position of the Ombudsman that the Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant schemes are illegal in the context of the Equal Status Acts closed both schemes to new entrants on 26th February 2013. In December 2013, the Government decided that the detailed preparatory work required for a new travel subsidy scheme and associated statutory provisions...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: A fundamental principle enshrined in the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 is that of patient choice.Once a person receives approval for financial support, they can choose to enter any nursing home that is participating in the scheme in any part of the country, subject to the nursing home having an available bed and being able to cater for the person's particular needs. This applies to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue, the question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issues this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.