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Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (18 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 201 and 202 together. 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 in County Laois....

Written Answers — Respite Services: Respite Services (18 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 funding of respite services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (18 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive 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 provision and funding of respite services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (18 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive 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 the executive's...

Written Answers — Disabled Drivers: Disabled Drivers (17 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 the responsibility for the assessment of and entitlement to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers (tax concessions)...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (17 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 national director...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (17 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: The Mental Health Act 2001 was enacted in July 2001. The Act provides a modern framework in which people who are mentally disordered and who need treatment or protection, either in their own interests or in the interest of others, can be treated and cared for. The main vehicle for the implementation of the provisions of the Act is the Mental Health Commission which was established with effect...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (17 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 the...

Written Answers — Health Service Allowances: Health Service Allowances (17 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 (17 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 the...

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (17 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 103 and 104 together. As the Deputy is aware, work is well under way on the preparation of a national strategy for action on suicide prevention. The strategy, which involves the project management unit of the Health Service Executive in partnership with the national suicide review group supported by the Department of Health and Children will be action-based...

Written Answers — Suicide Incidence: Suicide Incidence (17 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 105 and 106 together. Data on mortality are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and published in the annual and quarterly reports on vital statistics. The latest period for which data are available is January to September 2004 and these figures are set out in the tables below in addition to figures for 2002 and 2003. The national parasuicide registry...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (17 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: As the Deputy may be aware, I appointed the expert group on mental health policy in 2003 with the specific task of preparing a new policy framework for the mental health services to update the current policy document, Planning for the Future, which was published in 1984. The group, which is examining the future direction and delivery of all aspects of our mental health services, is expected...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (17 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 mental health services in Dublin. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 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 payment of and entitlement to domiciliary care allowance. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (17 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 in County Laois. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer,...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 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 respite care. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (12 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 — Departmental Investigations: Departmental Investigations (12 May 2005)

Tim O'Malley: My Department has sought legal advice from the Office of the Attorney General with regard to publishing the report referred to by the Deputy. Pending further consideration of the matter by the Office of the Attorney General, the Department has been advised against publication of the report either in full or in an edited format. In the circumstances, it would be inappropriate to make comment...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (12 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 funding of mental health services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...