Results 181-200 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Eligibility (20 Apr 2016)

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 (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, he can contact my Private Office and they will follow the matter up with the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: The standard practice for patients presenting to Emergency Departments with mental health issues who have also misused substances is that the mental health assessment is postponed until the individual is no longer intoxicated and is medically fit to engage in the assessment process. In the interim, the patient remains under the care of the Hospital Emergency Department Team. As part of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service issue this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply. If you have not received a reply within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (14 Apr 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: There is no prohibition, on age grounds, as regards the retail sale of paracetamol-containing products. The sale of medicinal products that consist of, or contain, paracetamol are governed by Regulations 13 to 16 of the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003, as amended. These regulations provide that paracetamol may only be supplied, without prescription,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (3 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: The issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE). Accordingly, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (3 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: Under the provisions of the Health Acts, medical cards are provided to persons who are, in the opinion of the HSE, unable without undue hardship to arrange GP services for themselves and their dependants. In the assessment process, the HSE can take into account medical costs incurred by an individual or a family. Where deemed appropriate in particular circumstances, the HSE may exercise...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transfers (3 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: The capital investment programme which I and Minister Leo Varadkar recently announced includes a new 100-bed Community Nursing Unit at Tymon North, Tallaght, replacing the existing 56 long stay beds at St Brigid's, Crooksling and providing an additional 44 beds which are much needed in the area. The HSE is continuing its work on scheduling and developing all projects. No further information...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (3 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: The issue raised by the Deputy is a service matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE). Accordingly, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank everyone who contributed to this debate, as well as those who referred to the matter before this debate. As other colleagues have said, these are particularly harrowing allegations. It is not often that everyone in the House is in agreement on an issue, and it is sad we find ourselves in agreement on how shocking and disturbing are these allegations. Every person who avails of...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: That is not what I meant.

Topical Issue Debate: Foster Care (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: I will conclude by thanking Deputies Clare Daly and Mick Wallace because they were involved and it is important that they did not use the issue to ingratiate themselves. It should be acknowledged that they pursued the issue in a very professional and dogged way. As it is such a delicate and sensitive area, whistleblowers need to feel as if they have the space and security to bring serious...

Topical Issue Debate: Foster Care (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: I know we are very restricted when it comes to the time allocated for the Topical Issue debate but I genuinely thank the two Deputies opposite for raising the issue as it is something that has preoccupied me for quite a considerable time. I welcome the opportunity to address the allegations of abuse in a foster home in the south east which are a matter of grave concern to me and to the...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: We will struggle for time now and as we have had this debate before I think it is important that rather than reading the set reply, which I am sure the Deputy will be supplied with, we should look at the services that are available in Wexford. The majority of the €18 million investment programme was spent in County Wexford on Tara House community mental health centre in Gorey, which...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: On suicide prevention, aftercare and the process when people are in crisis, Wexford is now providing 12,000 counselling hours and has received additional funding. In addition, the suicide crisis assessment nurse service, SCAN, in Wexford is a skilled mental health nursing service for primary care. As the Deputy knows, primary care is provided on a 24-hour basis. It provides an accessible...

Other Questions: Disability Services Funding (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: There is very seldom an issue on which Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan and I disagree. However, we cannot have separate accident and emergency departments for people with disabilities, for those who are older or for all the different conditions because that would be unrealistic. The Deputy and I know that it would be unaffordable and foolish to promise it. I completely accept, however, that...

Other Questions: Disability Services Funding (2 Feb 2016)

Kathleen Lynch: For many years when I was on the Opposition benches, every June and July there were protests outside the gate in respect of people with intellectual disabilities who were about to leave second level or rehabilitative training and who had nowhere to go. Deputies Kelleher and Ó Caoláin will remember this too. There was always a crisis. What we have done since I came took up my...