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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (22 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive community audiology service administers and monitors hearing tests for adults who are at risk for hearing loss. Appointments for the audiology service are sent in a strict chronology according to clinical priorities and date of receipt of referral. The HSE has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (23 Oct 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: Medical Card Delays (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Funding of €939 million is available to the Nursing Homes Support Scheme in 2014. Allocations for 2015 are not yet finalised. The HSE operates a national placement list for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme to enable it to operate within budget. All approved applicants are put on the placement list in order of their approval date and funding issues to applicants in this chronological...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: As the funding of individual hospices is a matter for the Health Service Executive, this matter has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The gross income limit for an over-70s medical card was set in law at €500 per week for a single person and at €900 per week for a couple from 1 January 2014. The Government recognises that the living costs of an individual living alone are more than half the living costs of a couple living together and that expenditure does not necessarily diminish relative to the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: With regard to oral health, I assume Deputy Kelleher was asking about children with intellectual disabilities, which is the only group that needs to be sedated for oral health. I do not know about the case to which he refers. Perhaps we will find out about it afterwards and revert to the Deputy. With the development of the new oral health policy, there is less need for full anaesthetic for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Yes. There will also be a new children’s unit for forensic stabilisation. We send many children abroad, as the committee knows, and we hope to ensure these people will come back. That is also the intention for the intensive care units that we will build around the country so that people who have mental health difficulties and need that forensic input will not have to be so remote...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I will get to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I am sure the Deputy can, and maybe he does not need to ask the question. By the end of August, approximately 140 of the 150 posts approved for CAMHS were filled. The matter of most concern to me, which I have been working on for the past month or two, is that there are 46 child and adolescent beds nationally: 14 in Dublin, 12 in Cork and 20 in Galway. I am sorry; there are 20 beds in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: They should not be there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (23 Oct 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy Troy raised the fair deal scheme with regard to St. Christopher's Services, and I will combine the two questions he asked. Waiting lists are increasing and €23 million was taken from the fair deal fund and placed in enhanced home care packages last year. This worked extremely well, as far more people now receive enhanced home care packages and home help. I have made inquiries...