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Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (15 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The development of primary care services is an essential component of the health reform process. In a developed primary care system up to 95% of people's day to day health and social care needs can be met in the primary care setting. Pharmacy services are well placed within the community to provide essential health advice and to support effective care at the lowest level of complexity and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centre Data (15 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The development of primary care is central to the Government's objective to deliver a high quality, integrated and cost effective health care system. Supporting infrastructure, procured through a combination of public and private investment, will facilitate the delivery of multi-disciplinary primary health care. Primary care infrastructure at thirteen of the 35 locations will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: As the issue raised by the Deputy relates to an individual case, this is a service matter for the Health Service Executive. I have asked the HSE to look into the particular matter raised and to reply directly to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I really appreciate Chairman's and members' forbearance in allowing me to contribute. I was watching the proceedings on the monitor in the office and feel there are some points we may need to clarify. Unless one knows Cork very well – a few of us around this table do – one might think the entire city was under water all at once. That is actually not true. Although there...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy for tabling this question. It is a significant announcement by the Government and in the future will be seen to be so. The announcement last week that agreement had been reached between the Department of Health, the Health Service Executive, HSE, and the Irish Medical Organisation on terms for the delivery of free GP care for all children aged under six years represents...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I have said publicly that the money for the scheme will not be taken from other areas of the health service. In the budget for this year we estimated that it would cost approximately €37 million. The additional funding, for which we had to secure agreement from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, was signed off on by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Services (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: If there is a need for a Supplementary Estimate towards the end of the year, there will be a Supplementary Estimate introduced. We are determined that not only will the scheme be taken up by everybody, to the advantage of every child in the country, but also that it will be funded in the way we have proposed. A Supplementary Estimate might be required towards the end of the year. At...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Services Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy for tabling the question. I am pleased to take this opportunity to outline the current position in regard to the provision of financial support to ChildVision, the national education centre for blind children, Dublin which is an excellent service. It is funded by the HSE under section 39 of the Health Act 2004. Services are provided through a service arrangement which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Services Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I will not get into the reasons why people in this country had to take reductions in pay or the amount of money that the State could allocate to certain bodies. Even people at ChildVision would agree there were very difficult choices to be made. In 2014, ChildVision had its budget reduced by €25,000 and all disability agencies had similar reductions in that year. This represented...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Services Funding (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: It is important that we clarify a point. It is not that I do not believe what the Deputy or ChildVision has indicated about the shortfall. However, the HSE imposed a reduction of €25,000 in 2014. That may have contributed to the shortfall but the reduction was €25,000.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Under the Mental Health Act 2001, the written consent of a patient is required where a programme of electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, is to be administered. When an involuntary patient is "unable" or "unwilling" to give consent, ECT may be administered if it has been approved by the consultant psychiatrist responsible for the care and treatment of the patient and also authorised by another...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: It is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: There is robust legislation.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: It might not be what we would like.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: We have legislation for the area, although it is not appropriate for the circumstances. Nonetheless, we have legislation. The Deputy is the Opposition spokesperson on mental health issues and he should be a little more measured in what he is saying. This is the Mental Health Commission's response and not mine; it is an independent body which takes these issues very seriously. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The word "forced" is nowhere to be found in the mental health commission's report. This is what the Deputy does. He had a story in the Irish Daily Staron Tuesday, 9 April and the alarmist element of his statements really worries me. I have a copy of the story in which he states people under 18 years who are admitted to adult acute units are left unsupervised. He also states that while...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: From the minute under-age persons are admitted to an adult acute unit, they are "specialled", which means someone is with them one to one on a 24-hour basis in a single room.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy should inform himself about his brief.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (16 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Nowhere in the mental health commission's report is it stated anyone was forced. I inform the Deputy that I will bring forward legislation in the immediate future to outlaw the administering of ECT to people who are unwilling.