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Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (23 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The processing of approvals for financial support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme re-commenced last week. Approvals are being issued to those applicants processed to final stage in the chronological order in which they were received in the Central Office in Tullamore. Approvals are currently being issued to the first 400 of these applicants. Funding is being assigned on a daily basis....

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (22 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I wish to inform the Deputy that my officials have been in contact with the Health Service Executive in relation to the Deputy's question of 11th May last. I have arranged to have this follow-up question referred to the HSE for an urgent direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (22 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Ambulance Service (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I am taking this matter on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly. The national ambulance service provides pre-hospital emergency care, as well as emergency and some non-emergency patient transport. Non-emergency transport comprises inter-hospital transfers and patient transport from home to health facility and from health facility to home. It includes both...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 344 and 351 together. As the Deputies questions relate to service matters I have arranged for the questions to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputies.

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The mental health services report all deaths of patients in Approved Centres. When persons are discharged from an Approved Centre they may continue to avail of a range of community-based mental health services. All sudden, unexplained deaths of persons attending a day hospital or a day centre, or other mental health service (including out-patient departments, resource centres, group homes,...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Jun 2011)

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.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I propose to take Questions Nos. 359 to 361, inclusive, together. On the 13th May 2011 there were 22,277 people in receipt of support from the State towards long-term residential care. Of these, almost 12,800 people were in receipt of financial support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme. The balance were 'saver' cases in public nursing homes (i.e people who were in public beds prior to...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: Data for June is not yet available. At end-April there were 2,920 applications in progress nationally. However, these were at varying stages in the process, e.g. some applications would be incomplete and the HSE would have been awaiting further documentation in order to progress them. As of the 13 May, the HSE had approximately 1,500 applications which had been processed to final stage on hand.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Jun 2011)

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

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: On the 13 May 2011 there were 22,277 people in receipt of support from the State towards long-term residential care. Of these, almost 12,800 people were in receipt of financial support under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme. The Nursing Homes Support Scheme encompasses a Care Needs Assessment which identifies whether the individual has sufficiently high care needs to warrant nursing home...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy's question refers to a matter that is currently subject to court proceedings. It would therefore be inappropriate for me to comment at this time.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The cost estimates for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme are underpinned by a number of assumptions, i.e. the number of people that will require long-term nursing home during the year, the average weekly price of long-term nursing home care, the average income of older people, home ownership rates for older people, the level of married and single applicants and an average length of stay. When...

Written Answers — National Disability Strategy: National Disability Strategy (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy will be aware, the National Disability Strategy, launched in September 2004, supports and reinforces equal participation in society of people with disabilities. The Strategy comprises of a number of elements, including the Disability Act 2005; the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs (EPSEN) Act 2004 and the Citizen's Information Act 2007. Under the terms of the...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The key focus of the Minister for Health is to ensure that those who require nursing home care will be able to access it and, to this end, the Department estimates that almost 24,000 people will be in long-term nursing home care by year end. This would mean a net increase of around 1,700 people between now and the end of the year. In order to fund this increase, and to offset other pressures...

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (21 Jun 2011)

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.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: The number of referrals of elder abuse received by the HSE Elder Abuse Service in the last three years were as follows: 2008: 1508 2009: 1916 2010: 2110 Policy in relation to elder abuse is derived from Protecting our Future, the Working Group on Elder Abuse Report 2002, which defined and set out a framework and programme of work to address elder abuse, and the 2009 Review of that Report....

Alternative Energy Projects (21 Jun 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank Deputy Mulherin for raising the issue. It is something we will have to deal with much more substantially in the future. The seasonal and annual mean wind speeds per county have been modelled by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, which has responsibility for the production of the national wind atlas. The mean wind speed figure might provide an indication for a county...