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Written Answers — Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 241 and 242 together. In response to the recommendations of the report of the national task force on suicide, which was published in 1998, the national suicide review group was established by the chief executive officers of the health boards. Membership of the group includes experts in the areas of mental health, public health and research. The main...

Written Answers — Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the employment of suicide resource officers. Accordingly, my Department has requested the interim chief executive...

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for aids and appliances. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal services. This includes responsibility for speech therapy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's north eastern...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal services. This includes responsibility for admissions to the National Rehabilitation Hospital. Accordingly my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of funding. Accordingly my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of funding. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive in...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. This includes the provision of funding for capital projects. Accordingly, my Department has requested the executive's national director for...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that I have recently written to Down's Syndrome Ireland suggesting a possible date for a meeting with them.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for aids and appliances. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I apologise on behalf of the Tánaiste who cannot be here as she has a prior engagement. I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and to substitute the following: "commends the Government for the significant increases in investment in cancer services, in particular the development of services for women with breast cancer and cervical cancer, and supports the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The review of Carmichael centre has been completed by a consultant engaged by the Health Service Executive, eastern regional area. However, the report of the review has not yet been completed, pending the receipt of outstanding information from Carmichael centre.

Written Answers — Residential Home Charges: Residential Home Charges (23 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The practice of charging or seeking a contribution from clients with a disability in residential care who had income which may include a disability benefit or allowance had been a feature of the health services for many years. Following the Attorney General's advice that there was no legal basis for such charges the health agencies were instructed to stop charging for long-stay care on 9...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January, 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for disability services. As the Deputy may be aware, my colleague, the Minister for Finance, in his 2005...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the employment of health professionals. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for disability services. As the Deputy may be aware my colleague, the Minister for Finance in his 2005...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: It is the responsibility of health service providers to ensure that appropriate care and treatment is provided to any person suffering mental illness. Where it is not possible for a particular psychiatrist to continue to provide such care and treatment for a patient, the patient is referred to another psychiatrist within the same catchment area.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of speech and language therapy, for people with a physical and-or sensory disability....

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The data from the national intellectual disability database committee's annual report for 2004 which was published on 26 November 2004 identify 474 individuals with intellectual disability all aged 20 years or over accommodated in psychiatric hospitals, 315 of whom have service requirements.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Mar 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of speech and language therapy, for people with a physical and-or sensory disability....