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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (21 Jan 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: Mobility Allowance Eligibility (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: The Government, conscious of the position of the Ombudsman that the Mobility Allowance and the Motorised Transport Grant schemes are illegal in the context of the Equal Status Acts closed both schemes to new entrants on 26th February 2013. In December 2013, the Government decided that the detailed preparatory work required for a new travel subsidy scheme and associated statutory provisions...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: A fundamental principle enshrined in the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 is that of patient choice.Once a person receives approval for financial support, they can choose to enter any nursing home that is participating in the scheme in any part of the country, subject to the nursing home having an available bed and being able to cater for the person's particular needs. This applies to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue, the question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issues this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: The Health Service Executive is the statutory body with responsibility for delivering Health and Personal Social Services in the State. The HSE may provide funding to non Statutory Provider Organisations in support of their activities where such activities are similar or ancillary to services the HSE may provide (Section 39 of the Health Act, 2004). The HSE also provides Capital Funding to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Properties (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Act Review (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: The Mental Health Act 2001 is a key piece of legislation regarding the rights of people involuntarily detained and treated in approved centres within our mental health services. The Act is being reviewed at present in line with the commitment contained in the Programme for Government to review the Act "informed by human rights standards and in consultation with service users, carers and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issues this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issues this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: Our new chief nursing officer, Dr. Siobhán O'Halloran, and I attended a conference on end-of-life services recently. We were told that very few people out of nursing homes now die in accident and emergency departments. There is a new system in place to ensure that people can remain in what is tantamount to their homes. Figures were produced to prove that very few people among the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Minister for Health and HSE (16 Jan 2014)
Kathleen Lynch: I congratulate Deputy Fitzpatrick for asking questions. There were a good many but, nevertheless, they all were questions. I will start with the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, Senator van Turnhout raised. I will ask Mr. Stephen Mulvany to come in on mental health. In terms of CAMHS, and the service available to children, it is not the same all over the country. It...