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Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Jun 2005)

Tim O'Malley: Demand for speech and language therapists was recognised in the Bacon report in 2002 where it was recommended that training places for speech and language therapists increase from 25 per year to 105 per year. In order to address the shortfall in supply, three new schools of speech and language therapy were opened in 2003, in the National University of Ireland in Galway and Cork and the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under this Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes the provision of psychiatric services and the allocation of funding for such services. Accordingly, my Department has...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I am informed by the HSE mid-western area that the community-based child and adolescent psychiatric service commenced in 1993 with the appointment of a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and team. In the intervening years, based on national norms and the national working group on child and adolescent psychiatry, the service has been expanded to four multidisciplinary teams. The four...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for mental health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: As the Deputy may be aware, the Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the matter referred to by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the matter raised by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Health Reports: Health Reports (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: In addition to the development of new and-or enhanced service provision, my Department has been working with the former health boards and voluntary service providers in recent years to meet specific identified needs in existing services. These primarily relate to the changing profile of the population in these services and in particular increased dependency levels due to ageing, medical...

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 184 and 185 together. Data on mortality compiled and published by the Central Statistics Office indicate that there were 12 deaths by suicide of persons under 25 in County Roscommon between 1997 and September 2004 and there were five such deaths in County Leitrim. Nationally, there were 858 deaths by suicide of persons under 25 in the period 1997 to September...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January, 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the matter referred to by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: Demand for speech and language therapists was recognised in the Bacon report in 2002 when it was recommended that training places for speech and language therapists increase from 25 per year to 105 places per year. To address this shortfall in supply, three new schools of speech and language therapy were opened in 2003, in National University of Ireland in Galway and Cork and University of...

Hospital Staff. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Deputy Deenihan for raising this matter. I will respond to his comments on behalf of the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. A nurse from Listowel who has worked in the United States for eight years recently contacted me in Limerick because she wishes to work as a nurse in this country. She qualified as a general nurse in the US and worked in cardiac...

Hospital Staff. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I am delighted. I hope we will be able to work together.

Hospital Staff. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: Under the Health Act 2004, which provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive on 1 January 2005, the HSE is responsible for managing and delivering, or arranging to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Therefore, the HSE is responsible for nurse staffing at Kerry General Hospital. I am aware of the concerns raised by the Irish Nurses Organisation...

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Senator Kitt for raising this matter on the Adjournment. I am responding to it on behalf of my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. Following the closure by the Bon Secours order of the Grove hospital in Tuam, the former Western Health Board, now the HSE, western area, which is responsible, in the first instance, for the provision of health...

Seanad: Hospitals Building Programme. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: It was something akin to a PPP. The Tánaiste asked them to be innovative. It would be something like that, but I do not want to circumscribe it.

Seanad: Pension Provisions. (31 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I thank Senator Terry for raising this matter. I am replying to her motion on behalf of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen. The ESRI report referred to is entitled Pensions Incomes and Replacement Rates in 2000, published in May 2005. Page 38 of that report states, "The Revenue Commissioners estimate that the net cost of the tax reliefs for private pension saving by employees, employers...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (26 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The national disability strategy provides a framework of positive action measures to support participation by people with disabilities in Irish society. The strategy consists of the Disability Bill 2004, the Comhairle (Amendment) Bill 2004, six outline sectoral plans and a commitment to a multi-annual investment. The strategic review of services being undertaken by my Department is examining...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for payment of and entitlement to domiciliary care allowance. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (25 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for payment of and entitlement to domiciliary care allowance. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (24 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the establishment of the Health Service Executive on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for transport to a rehabilitative training programme. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...