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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (26 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government decided in June last that new statutory provisions should be established to provide individual payments to people with severe disabilities who require additional income to address the costs of their mobility needs. An inter-departmental group, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach, is working to develop detailed proposals for the operation of a new statutory scheme and is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (24 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, including disability services. The HSE either directly provides or contracts disability agencies such as St Michael House to provide a range of disability services through service level arrangements. St Michael's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (24 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, including disability services. The HSE either directly provides or contracts disability agencies such as St Michael House to provide a range of disability services through service level arrangements. St Michael's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (24 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services, including disability services. The HSE either directly provides or contracts disability agencies such as St Michael House to provide a range of disability services through service level arrangements. St Michael's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (24 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government decided in June last that new statutory provisions should be established to provide individual payments to people with severe disabilities who require additional income to address the costs of their mobility needs. An inter-departmental group, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach, is working to develop detailed proposals for the operation of a new statutory scheme and is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (24 Sep 2013)

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: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Sep 2013)

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: HSE Expenditure (24 Sep 2013)

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 Decision (24 Sep 2013)

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: Child Protection Issues (19 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Allowances (19 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Rehabilitative Training (RT) allowance is paid to trainees attending RT programmes funded by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The payment is in addition to any other State payment the individual receives, such as the Disability Allowance. RT programmes are operated by the HSE or on its behalf by specialist service providers. There are 2,800 (whole-time equivalent) RT places with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (19 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government currently provides funding of over €1.5 billion to the Disability Services Programme through the HSE's National Service Plan for 2013, and is committed to protecting frontline services for people with disabilities to the greatest possible extent. My colleague the Minister for Health and I are working to ensure that protection is afforded to the disability sector, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Incidence (19 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: National mortality data including that relating to suicide is published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). This data is made available on a quarterly and annual basis and is categorised by county, age and gender. A number of sources of information are used by the CSO to inform the classification of death including the Medical Cause of Death Certificate, the Coroner's certificate and Form...

Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Sometimes the most difficult changes to make are cultural and attitude changes - they are not the most expensive but they are often the most difficult. A few years ago, we were all encouraged, as patients - which I am sure we all will be at some stage of our lives - to ask clinicians whether they had washed their hands. However, it is not quite that simple when a patient is solely reliant...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Nursing Units (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I agree that we cannot wait another two years for a decision, but I am not certain the decision will be made by the HSE. It will make a recommendation and ultimately the Minister will make the decision.

Topical Issue Debate: Community Nursing Units (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I hope it will be done very shortly, as people need to know exactly what the future holds for them. We have 129 public nursing units in the State. Very good research and work have been done in the past two years and we have discovered that we have sufficient beds for now, but I agree that there will come a point when we will not have enough because of our ageing population, which is a...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Nursing Units (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I cannot give an exact answer, but I will commit to making further inquiries as a result of this question and try to get an answer for the Deputy.

Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Health and thank the Deputy for raising it. I just asked the Minister for Finance when the Crimean war occurred and he told me that it was around 1880. That was when Florence Nightingale decided washing one's hands and being clean were important to prevent infection. Perhaps we should call this the Florence Nightingale campaign and...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Nursing Units (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank Deputy Stanley for raising this issue. He is correct that significant concerns have been expressed on this issue over the past two years but I think he will acknowledge that the reversal of the original decision was a good thing. It is important that we take our time when we make our decisions. There are six public nursing units in counties Laois and Offaly, namely, Abbeyleix...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.