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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: We are spending €1.4 billion per year on disability services. Given that level of expenditure, there are areas where changes simply have to be made. I am very conscious that service providers are worried. However, even though we could not do the job without them, my main concern is not for the providers. Rather, my concern is for the people who require support and to whom, in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Government policy is to support older people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible. This is achieved through a range of community-based services such as mainstream home help, meals-on-wheels, and respite or day care. In more complex cases, enhanced home care packages may be provided. The reductions recently introduced in respect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Of course the aim of the Government is to ensure that older people remain in their own communities. That is the most sensible and cost-effective solution and also the one which offers the best outcome for individuals. Unfortunately, however, we find ourselves in very straitened circumstances. We will have to make our case very trenchantly in the negotiations leading up to the budget in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE, through its occupational guidance service, works with schools, service providers, service users and families to identify the needs of young people with disabilities who are due to complete their second level education. The aim is to address the needs of individuals through health-funded rehabilitative - life skills - training; health-funded day services; FÁS-funded vocational...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I fully recognise that there has always been and will continue to be fear in the community in respect of those who require the types of interventions required by people with special needs. There is a spectrum to be considered. There are those who will require very little intervention and clearly those who have very challenging needs. For the first time this year, school-leavers were dealt...

National Children's Hospital: Motion (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I am sharing my time with Deputies Catherine Byrne, Eric Byrne and Michael Conaghan. Given my constituency, I am probably the only speaker present who does not have a vested interest in the location of the hospital. The old saying, "Prevarication is the thief of time", always springs to mind when dealing with the issue of the children's hospital. The children who are in need of such a...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy did not even miss it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The recent NESC report: 'Quality and Standards in Human Services in Ireland: Disability Services' was very timely in that it followed the recent publication of the Value for Money and Policy Review (VFMPR) of Disability Services by my Department and was in advance of the current consultation being carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority ( HIQA) on the revised draft...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE’s Report ‘Time to Move on from Congregated Settings’ was published in July 2011 and sets out a framework to guide the transfer of identified individuals from congregated settings to live in the community. It is currently estimated that 3,600 people still reside in these settings. The Report defined a congregated setting as a residential setting of ten or more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: St Raphael's Centre, Youghal is a HSE intellectual disability service providing day, residential and respite services for 180 clients in Youghal. The majority of the services are delivered on the main campus that includes an old institutional style residential centre, where over 80 clients reside in dormitories. There are also two large hostels, a new 30 bedded unit and 3 community houses. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The latest validated information from the Health Service Executive indicates that at the end of September 2012 there were 7,376 public residential beds for older people in Ireland. Of these, 5,468 are designated long stay beds and 1,908 are designated as short term beds. The Deputy will be aware that the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is the statutory body responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 28 and 319 together. The development of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has been prioritised by the HSE in recent years and considerable progress has been made to date. A special allocation of €35 million was provided in Budget 2012 for mental health, in line with commitments in the Programme for Government. Funding from this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Government policy is, in line with available resources, to support vulnerable older people to remain living at home and in their communities for as long as possible. Where this is not an option, for whatever reason, we support access to short-term or long-term residential care. In relation to the figure of approximately 600 acute hospital patients referred to in the Deputy's question, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Expenditure on health services for people with a disability in 2012 will be in the region of €1.4 billion. The HSE National Service Plan 2012 provides for a 3.7% reduction in budgets but makes it clear that there is scope for achieving efficiencies of 2%, thereby limiting as much as possible the impact on front line services. Despite this reduction, which is similar to that applied...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Carer's Allowance Applications (8 Nov 2012)

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 (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 43 and 83 together. This matter requires further consideration by Government in order to meet the requirements of the Equal Status Acts and to ensure no hardship for those currently in receipt of the Mobility Allowance. The Department of Health is seeking further legal advice as to the options available to the Government. The Ombudsman is asking the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Government policy on Palliative Care is contained in the Report of the National Advisory Committee on Palliative Care (2001) and the Health Service Executive Five Year / Medium Term Framework for Palliative Care Services (2009-13). In common with a series of NESC reports, the one raised by the Deputy in relation to End of Life Care in Hospitals, calls for various actions. These reflect to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: The HSE Service Plan 2012 provided in the region of €1.4billion overall for Services for Older People. This includes Long Term Residential Care, Home Care Supports, Day or Respite Care and Health Promotion. The position in relation to 2013, or beyond, is subject to the annual Estimates process in the light of evolving resources and services priorities for the health sector overall.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (8 Nov 2012)

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: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Nov 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: Pending completion of the national estimates, budgetary and service planning process for 2013 it is not possible to predict the service levels to be provided next year.