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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Mar 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 Provision (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Parliamentary Question referred to by the Deputy was referred to the HSE for direct reply therefore, the HSE has been asked to provide you with a copy of its response.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (20 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: Mobility Allowance Applications (20 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 a direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: There are detection and treatment services available at present, in the community and in acute hospital settings, for many conditions which can lead to vision impairment and blindness. The Department's priorities are to continue to identify and address ophthalmic defects noticed at child health and/or school health examinations; to provide free eye examinations and free spectacles to all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Applications (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: One complaint was made to the Equality Tribunal against the Department of Health under the Equal Status Acts on the grounds of age discrimination relating to a refusal of the Mobility Allowance. The Health Service Executive was also a named respondent. A settlement was agreed prior to a hearing on the matter, which was scheduled for 4 March 2013. I am not in a position to provide the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Report (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Implementation of A Vision for Change (AVFC) and the reform of our mental health services is a priority for this Government. plementation of AVFC has been slower than originally expected. It has been delayed by a number of factors including the changed economic context, constraints in public spending and the moratorium on recruitment. It is expected that the appointment of a Director for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Department of Health does not collect information on children identified with Autism and Asperger's on a national or international basis. Information pertaining to diagnosis is specifically excluded from the National Intellectual Disability Database as the database is not designed as a medical epidemiological tool. Accordingly the database does not record the incidence of Autism or any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (20 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: This Government is committed to enhancing the quality of life of older people, maintaining their full potential, supporting them in their homes and communities, providing access to respite care and day care and, when required, providing access to quality long-term residential care. This commitment is reflected in both the HSE's National Service Plan 2013 and the National Operational Plan 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to a service matter, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive, for a direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: There are detection and treatment services available at present, in the community and in acute hospital settings, for many conditions which can lead to vision impairment and blindness. The Department's priorities are to continue to identify and address ophthalmic defects noticed at child health and/or school health examinations; to provide free eye examinations and free spectacles to all...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Screening (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I am about to read the official reply but I do not disagree with any of the points made by the Deputies. I thank Deputies Anne Ferris and Billy Kelleher for raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to update the House following on the update provided to the Seanad last month by my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Dinny McGinley. As Deputies will be aware, the...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Screening (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputies. The Joint Committee on Health and Children will be dealing with the issue in detail on 28 March. It is important that this meeting is being held in advance of the deadline of 31 March 2013. It is very difficult to deal with an issue retrospectively. However, we need to consider further how to deal with it. The Data Protection Commissioner indicated that the situation...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Youth Services (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Sometimes what happens - the Senator probably realises this himself - and I find it particularly with regard to disability services, is that somehow or other organisations come to a notional view themselves what a cut will be. It seems very obvious to me that the background information clearly states a flat 10% saving requirement would be applied across all funding lines in 2013. The...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Health Service Staffing (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The course on which the Minister is set is about changing the system. It is a big unwieldy system and it will take time to change. On the information Senator Colm Burke is seeking, it is estimated there are on six-month contracts, approximately 2,000 senior house officers and registrars and some specialist registrars; on one-year contracts, 570 interns, approximately 300 senior house...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Youth Services (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I am taking the debate on behalf of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, and I thank the Senator for raising it. We are conscious of the considerable benefits that can accrue to young people from involvement in youth work, and the benefits for society as a whole. Youth projects and youth organisations present valuable opportunities for the social and personal...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Health Service Staffing (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I am taking this Adjournment matter on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly. I thank the Senator for raising this important issue. A memorandum of understanding for a pilot exchange programme between the HSE and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan was signed in November 2011. The programme is due to commence in July this year. Doctors who are currently...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Screening (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I am about to read the official reply but I do not disagree with any of the points made by the Deputies. I thank Deputies Anne Ferris and Billy Kelleher for raising this matter as it provides me with an opportunity to update the House following on the update provided to the Seanad last month by my colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Dinny McGinley. As Deputies will be aware, the...

Topical Issue Debate: Health Screening (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputies. The Joint Committee on Health and Children will be dealing with the issue in detail on 28 March. It is important that this meeting is being held in advance of the deadline of 31 March 2013. It is very difficult to deal with an issue retrospectively. However, we need to consider further how to deal with it. The Data Protection Commissioner indicated that the situation...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: As I have said before and will say again, the next time I am called to speak after Senator Norris, I will leave the Chamber. In 1996, when the original employment equality legislation was introduced, I strongly objected to it, which left me in a lonely place. The following Sunday, when entering my local church to go to mass, I was handed a leaflet, clearly by somebody who did not know me....