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- Written Answers — Health Reports: Health Reports (18 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and 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 the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 158, 181 and 192 together. The National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) was established under The Education (Welfare) Act, 2000 as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework which promotes regular school attendance and tackles the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006 -2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the newly established Office of the Minister for Children. I understand that the project in question has submitted an application for capital grant assistance under the NCIP. I...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme is funded as part of the two Regional Operational Programmes under the National Development Plan, and is split between two measures: the Childcare Facilities measure (which receives co-funding from the European Regional Development Fund) and the Childcare Measure (which receives co-funding from the European Social Fund and is divided into the...
- Written Answers — Community Care: Community Care (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children. I understand that the Group in question has been approved total capital grant assistance of â¬417,323 under the EOCP and has also been...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Child Care (Pre-School Services) Regulations 2006 provide that "a person carrying on a pre-school service shall ensure that a sufficient number of suitable and competent adults are working directly with the pre-school children in the pre-school service at all times". The changes to the age ranges and the adult-child ratios applying to each age range under the revised Regulations are set...
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) was established under The Education (Welfare) Act, 2000 as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework which promotes regular school attendance and tackles the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The general functions of the Board are to ensure that every child...
- Written Answers — School Absenteeism: School Absenteeism (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: This government is determined to do all that is possible to ensure that every child gets all the opportunities and support they need to enable them to complete their education. Measures designed to improve school attendance include the establishment of the National Educational Welfare Board, under the Education Welfare Act, in 2002 with a remit to monitor school attendance, help parents to...
- Written Answers — Education Welfare Service: Education Welfare Service (24 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 649 to 651, inclusive, together. The National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) was established under the Education (Welfare) Act, 2000 as the single national body with responsibility for school attendance. The Act provides a comprehensive framework which promotes regular school attendance and tackles the problems of absenteeism and early school leaving. The...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: He left the money in his will.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I wish to put the record straight in respect of the co-location initiative. It is legitimate to conclude that Labour is opposed to the co-location of public and private hospitals and that Fine Gael is in favour of private hospitals, provided they are not co-located with their public counterparts. That seems to be the position of the respective parties offering themselves as an alternative...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy will receive that response. Labour will not entertain these hospitals and Fine Gael will keep them out of the way.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: That is my summary of this debate. In practical terms, this means that both parties are quite happy with a system where 45% of elective operations in the public hospital, Tallaght, in Deputy Rabbitte's constituency are private. The Government wants a better deal for public patients. We will free up new beds for public patients at ten public hospitals and we will purchase services for public...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The â¬1 billion paid out by insurance companies is the total of all their payments in respect of tests, bed charges in private hospitals, fees for consultants and outpatient fees. Bed charges in respect of all 2,500 private beds in public hospitals is only one aspect. If Deputy Twomey had read the documentation produced last year in respect of this initiative, he would have seen that the...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: Deputy Burton referred to the Exchequer cost of capital allowances and asked a legitimate question. The Deputy, like the Minister for Health and Children, also referred to Dean Swift. I am obliged to agree with Deputy Burton in respect of one point, namely, that Dean Swift left money in his will to St. Patrick's Hospital as an act of philanthropy. This was a posthumous act of generosity...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: In respect of the cost of capital allowances, we have stated from the outset that we can achieve 1,000 new public beds for a tax cost of approximately â¬420 million, less than half the full cost. This estimate is conservative and does not take account â in favour of the Government argument â of the VAT and income tax that will accrue to the Exchequer during construction. This rationale...
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I appeal to the Fine Gael and Labour parties to come together and present the people with an honest alternative in respect of this issue.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
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- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have provided the Deputy with the information this evening.
- Health Services: Motion (Resumed). (25 Oct 2006)
Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Deputy's party cannot continue to oppose the co-location initiative on the basis that private hospitals should be situated elsewhere, while its potential partner in Government does not want private facilities located beside their public counterparts. The two parties are coming from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. The solution we propose is the only practical one of its kind...