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Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision (13 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The aim of neuro-rehabilitation is to enable the person to achieve the highest possible level of independence. Desired outcomes range from a return to full independence in social and work situations to a person requiring long-term support and care but with a higher level of independence than in the absence of neuro-rehabilitation. Current services available include acute hospital services;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Services (13 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 227 to 229, inclusive, together. As these are service matters they have been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I do not think we are going to go backwards in our mental health provision. The plan is, and A Vision for Change clearly states, that we will have a community-based mental health service as the big institutions that existed are to be closed. They have been closed and that is important. As Dr. Dermot Walsh told me when he came in to talk to me, we had 22,500 people in institutions in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: That type of rhetoric-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy is easily appalled.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I will return first to Deputy Ó Snodaigh's question regarding what comes next. Reach Out as a strategy is part of A Vision for Change, which is supposed to conclude in 2014, but that is not set in stone. The previous plan we had for mental health was a 1983 plan and the one previous to that was a 1940 plan. I do not intend to maintain a similar gap and shortly we will put together a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: We will never reach a point at which we will eliminate death by suicide. There may be years in which it does not happen or suicide deaths do not flash on the radar. Suicide has been an issue across the world. We simply did not count incidents well or acknowledge them to a great extent. We need to capture information on who is dying by suicide, most notably large numbers of young men....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Eventually we got the five mobile telephone providers together. Up to now the Samaritans had a lo-call number with Eircom, but the organisation was carrying the cost and clearly could not continue to do so. The other thing we discovered was that very few people are now using landlines. Anybody in distress, young people in particular, were using mobile telephones so that number was of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Strategy on Suicide Awareness: Discussion (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I apologise in advance for something that was arranged just last week. I welcome the opportunity to address the committee today. I will not give the entire official speech because members might like to spend more of the limited time we have asking questions. I know a briefing note has been circulated to the members and I hope it has been helpful. Mr. Gerry Raleigh, on my left, is the new...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: When performing their functions as members of the directorate, appointed directors will act collectively as part of the governing body of the HSE. This is distinct from their individual responsibilities as senior employees in the grade of national director relating to a particular service area. As the Minister indicated on Committee Stage, therefore, it is not feasible for him to accept...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I would like to respond to Deputy Billy Kelleher by referring to my experience on the Opposition benches. Any of us who comes back into this House is very lucky. I have always viewed being elected or not being elected in that way. The voice of the people is genuinely supreme. Fianna Fáil is opposed to the Bill because it vests too much power in the Minister. For ten years we said...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: He goes to the committee four times a year.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The consultation takes place in advance. It has taken place by the time the report is drawn up. It is not the case that we do not listen. We have quarterly meetings with the committee and it is clear that we listen and take note. The things on which we agree with the committee appear in the service plan. Is the Deputy suggesting the service plan should not be set in stone and that it...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: One cannot plan a health service on that basis. A health service has to be planned in a clear way. The Minister is not supreme and has to account to his Cabinet colleagues. Equally, he has to account to this Chamber. I find it difficult to take a lecture from the Deputy on political manoeuvrings.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Now.

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: On behalf of the Minister responsible, I thank the Deputies for their contributions. While this is a short Bill, the Minister has a particular interest in it, as do those who contributed. I thank all those who contributed, which always adds to the value of any item of legislation.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (12 Jun 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I think amendment No. 1 is in the name of Deputy Boyd Barrett but it was ruled out of order.