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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Health Services Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Former Deputy Batt O'Keeffe must have taught Deputy Kelleher mathematics.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is committed to the provision and development of services for children with a disability, including early intervention services, within available resources. While these services are in the process of being reconfigured under the Health Service Executive's national programme on progressing disability services for children and young people from birth to 18 years, it is important...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I agree with the Deputy. What we inherited was quite significant despite a significant amount of money being spent annually. It became clear, on looking at the situation when we entered Government, that what was in place was not working and that we had to reconfigure the entire service. That is what we are in the process of doing. We have been extraordinarily lucky in getting someone like...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I do not know how we have strayed into this area because there is another question tabled on mental health. Obviously, the Deputy felt the need to raise it earlier. Despite the fact that I take entire responsibility for the disability and mental health service,and how we need to transform it, what we inherited was chaotic. We inherited it from the party of which Deputy Colm Keaveney is now...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: No one is responsible for the type of weather we have seen in the past few weeks. Coming from Cork, I know that better than most and, when there is an issue of health and safety, that will be dealt with as a matter of urgency. My information is that, as of this morning, it is being dealt with as we speak. This is why we are building a new 50-bed unit at the same site. There is no great...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: When I came into office, I found a service in chaos.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: This is good news but unfortunately the issue does not get much publicity or air time. I share the Deputy's concern about issues in recent years relating to the provision of day services and training places to young people with disabilities leaving school. For that reason, I asked the Health Service Executive to put new structures in place to ensure available places are identified as early...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: This is the first year and there will always be little hiccups in the initial stages. I am confident even if we do not reach the deadline in March or June it will be a far more stable process and people will be reassured their loved ones, and in some instances they are not children, will have an appropriate place in June, July, August and September. We decided if these people were to apply...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy for tabling the question. We are looking at this issue intensively because we recognise the need in the future will be greater. I would like to assure the Deputy that the needs of our older people are, and will remain, a very high priority for me and the Government and that the resources that are available will be applied to provide the best possible mix of supports and...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I share the Deputy's concerns. It is offensive to people as they age to have a tag put on them which is clearly not of their own making. The number is not 600, although it is a substantial one. The number ranges from between 400 and 460 at any one time and we all know the significance of that in terms of the cost of an acute hospital bed. The reason we are putting in the 25...

Other Questions: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I am not convinced that all those in beds in acute hospitals would necessarily need to go into long-term care, although a proportion would need to do so. However, we believe that with the right interventions, such as physiotherapy, and with the home care packages and supports, many more people could live long and well in their own communities. The Deputy and I know the old saying that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: In line with Government policy, the Health Service Executive provides a range of community-based services aimed at ensuring older people receive safe, timely and appropriate care and treatment at the lowest level of complexity, and as close to home as possible. This means that they are facilitated and supported to stay in their own homes and communities for as long as it is viable, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Health related supports and interventions for children can be accessed through HSE Primary Care and Disability Services. The National Service Plan 2013 provided for additional funding of €20m to strengthen primary care services. This comprises over €18.5m for the recruitment of over 260 primary care team posts and over €1.4m to support Community Intervention Team...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (13 Feb 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 Review (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: In November 2013, the Government decided that the detailed preparatory work required for a new travel subsidy scheme and associated statutory provisions should be progressed by the Minister for Health, in consultation with other relevant Ministers. The Department of Health is working to progress this matter in line with the Government's decision. The Department will draw on the work, last...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Services Funding (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is providing funding of €1.4 billion to the Disability Services Programme in 2014, including an additional €14m to address the priority needs identified by the Minister for Health and advised to the Health Service Executive (HSE). The additional funding includes €7m for the provision of new places for school-leavers and rehabilitative (life-skills)...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Services Funding (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Prosper Fingal was established in 1978 as a parents and friends organisation (formerly called The Fingal Association for the Handicapped), to provide a local day service for adults with a moderate or mild learning disability. The aim of the organisation is to "enable people with disabilities develop their true potential towards full and independent participation in society". Prosper Fingal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As the particular issue raised by the Deputy relates to an individual case, this is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The vision for the Health Service Executive's Disability Services Programme is to contribute to the realisation of a society where people with disabilities are supported, as far as possible, to participate to their full potential in economic and social life, and have access to a range of quality personal social supports and services to enhance their quality of life. The Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care for Children (13 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: In 2010, the Department of Health published "Palliative Care for Children with Life-limiting Conditions in Ireland - A National Policy". The report contains 31 recommendations which are being implemented under the aegis of the National Development Committee which is a multi-stakeholder representative group, chaired by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The national policy provides the...