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Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (21 Mar 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: Rehabilitation Services (21 Mar 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: Hospital Services (21 Mar 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: Home Care Packages (21 Mar 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: Disability Services Programme Review (21 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The move towards a model of funding which is linked to individual need is encompassed by the recommendations in the Value for Money (VFM) and Policy Review of Disability Services which I published last year. An individualised payments model is one aspect of individualised budgeting, which describes an approach whereby a monetary value is placed on the supports required by an individual with...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: No.

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"recognises the Government’s commitments to people with a disability in the Programme for Government, including greater participation in employment, training and education with a revitalised National Disability Strategy; notes the considerable efforts to reform existing legislation...

Seanad: Restorative Justice Process: Motion (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I wish to mention at the outset that the previous Government put in place the first project of this kind. We need to acknowledge that Máire Hoctor, who served as a Minister of State in one of the areas for which I am now responsible, was instrumental in putting the project in place.

Seanad: Restorative Justice Process: Motion (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: When the victims of crime and their families are interviewed on their way out of court - this generally happens in cases of far more serious crimes - one seldom hears them expressing satisfaction with the end process. Regardless of how well-intentioned the court process is, in most cases neither the perpetrator nor the victim is terribly satisfied with how justice is administered. I join...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I would like to thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The HSE operates a treatment abroad scheme, TAS, for persons entitled to treatment in another EU/EEA member state, or Switzerland, under EU Regulation 883/04 and Implementing Regulation 987/09 in accordance with Department of Health guidelines. Within these governing EU regulations and the Department of Health's guidelines, the TAS...

Topical Issue Debate: Treatment Abroad Scheme (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: There is a key piece concerning the discretionary element of the scheme, which is that the consultant should state that the person needs to be accompanied. People probably do not know about that, but they need to. A discretionary scheme has flexibility that does not apply to other schemes, which is helpful. Nonetheless, that discretion is not often applied evenly across the country....

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: On behalf of the Minister for Health I wish to say it was because this is directly after an hour and a quarter of questions and the Minister had something else timetabled. I am sure he has not only seen the response but is still very committed to this area. With regard to the previous debate we had on Question Time, it is significant that two Deputies, both from the Opposition, raised the...

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Perhaps the Deputies are not as telepathically tuned in as the Government.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Yes.

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I cannot possibly comment on what is reported in newspapers, as the Deputy knows. This is not an issue which has gone away. We need to continue to try to find a resolution to it. I will do my very best on this issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: In fact, the Ombudsman tells us that these schemes have been illegal for the last 13 years. That is not to put blame on anybody.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: We looked at alternatives but each alternative we proposed was found to be illegal on the advice of the Attorney General. The group we have put together is wide-ranging and will examine transport needs. It will meet again on 25 March. With regard to the time frame, we hope to have a proposed scheme in place to replace the schemes we have abolished. It will not be an individualised scheme....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Members should recognise the Government is more than conscious of the effect the abolition of these two schemes will have on those who are reliant on them. This is the reason it took the Government so long, not that it was unaware of it. The Government has been considering these two schemes since coming into office. The difficulty is they are in contravention of the Equal Status Acts and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Disability Grant Schemes (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is very conscious of the needs of people with a disability who require transport supports from the State and also 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. The Minister, Deputy Reilly, and I considered carefully the recommendations of the Ombudsman in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I have already indicated that care provision in 2013 for the Home Help Service, will be restored to 2012 levels. As is the case with all aspects of HSE service plans, the Home Help services are reviewed on a regular basis, in the context of achieving agreed targets or taking account of evolving circumstances over the course of 2013.