Results 2,481-2,500 of 2,674 for speaker:John Moloney
- Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. The Executive, therefore, is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: In December 2004, the Department of Health and Children, through the Health Research Board, approved expenditure of â¬5 million on autism research to help improve international understanding of the genetic causes of autism. This â¬5 million is the Irish contribution to a new major international research initiative called the Autism Genome Project which will receive a total investment of...
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: He is close enough to doing so. I do not want to make little of the response. However, I want to be as direct as possible. I made the point that those involved with education for persons with special needs and the cross-sectoral team will meet shortly. The former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, established the new office with responsibility for disabilities and mental health, which has...
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I accept that we are coming from a low base. However, I ask the Deputy to bear in mind that the office was only recently established. The Government recognises the importance of the work of the office. It also accepts that we need to catch up quickly and that is what we are doing. The first priority on the agenda of the cross-sectoral teams is how the issues should be resolved and how the...
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: The awful reality is that when the jobs in question were advertised three to four years ago, we could not get people to even apply for them.
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: The establishment of the office underlines the commitment on the part of the Government to ensure that the issues raised by the three Deputies will be dealt with. We will communicate further with them in October or November when the process has been properly evaluated and when the position regarding need and demand has been established.
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I am evaluating the commitment to which Deputy à Caoláin referred. That evaluation will not be completed for at least six weeks.
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: Not yet.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I share the concerns of the Inspector of Mental Health Services regarding conditions in the long-stay wards of some psychiatric hospitals. I point out in this regard that capital funding of â¬145 million was provided and expended on the upgrading of mental health facilities under the National Development Plan 2000 to 2007 and additional funding of â¬20 million per annum will be provided...
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I thank the Deputy for his good wishes.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I have also read the report of the Inspector of Mental Health Services, which was published on 29 May. I am in this job three weeks and I give a full commitment that, whatever has happened before, I intend pushing forward immediately with the sale of lands and properties owned by the HSE. I do not intend to travel just for the sake of travelling. The hospitals outlined specifically in the...
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I want to be direct in all my answers. I have no intention whatsoever of reviewing that. The Deputy asked me some minutes ago how we were to implement A Vision for Change and what we were going to do for the psychiatric services. The nonsense that we are talking about a prison and a hospital in the very same setting could not be further from the truth. It is two separate approaches and...
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I am trying to answer the question. On the one hand, the Deputy is blaming Government for not initiating change. On the other hand, I am criticised when I try to do that.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I am also being consistent.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I have every confidence in the ability and expertise of the medical staff in Dundrumââ
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: ââand I am certain they will put the patient at the centreââ
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: ââjust as I do. In regard to wasting time on revisiting Government decisions, I fully intend to implement this policy and I am putting the funding we can secure from the sale of the Dundrum lands into the same basket as other properties we will sell throughout the country. I hope we receive the support of the public in ensuring patients come first.
- Mental Health Services. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I thank the Acting Chairman and Deputy Reilly. Long may it last.
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 and 66 together. Recognising the cross-cutting nature of the national disability strategy, the Government established the Office for Disability and Mental Health in January 2008. This office helps me in exercising my functions as Minister of State with responsibility for disability and mental health across the Departments of Health and Children, Education...
- Special Educational Needs. (5 Jun 2008)
John Moloney: I am not in the business of correcting the Taoiseach because he is usually right. I will not speak on his behalf until I consult him directly.