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Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: My Department has, since 1997, allocated significant levels of funding across the disability sector which has resulted in very significant and unprecedented developments in the quality and quantity of the health related services which are being provided to people with disabilities. A total of €643 million has been invested in these services, of which €388 million was provided for services...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: In the period 1999 to date additional revenue funding of almost €80 million has been invested in the development of our mental health services. The funding provided has been used for on-going developments in mental health services, to develop and expand community mental health services, to increase child and adolescent services, to expand the old age psychiatric services, to provide liaison...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: Responsibility for the provision of services referred to by the Deputy rests with the Eastern Regional Health Authority. My Department has therefore asked the regional chief executive to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply to her directly.

Written Answers — Health Board Services: Health Board Services (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: The development of health related support services to people with disabilities is a matter for the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the health boards in the first instance. Priorities for the allocation of funding available for the development of such services are decided by the health boards in consultation with their regional co-ordinating committees and regional consultative and...

Written Answers — Health Board Surveys: Health Board Surveys (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 and 388 together. Responsibility for the matter referred to by the Deputy rests with the South Eastern Health Board. My Department has therefore asked the chief executive officer to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply to him directly.

Written Answers — Health Board Services: Health Board Services (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 402 and 403 together. The provision of health related services, including speech and language therapy, for people with physical and/or sensory disabilities is a matter for the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the health boards in the first instance. Accordingly, the Deputy's question has been referred to the chief executive officer of the Eastern Regional...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: The following amounts of additional revenue and capital funding have been made available to the health boards by my Department in 2003 and 2004 for the provision of health services for people with disabilities. Revenue Capital €million € 2003 57.28 30,000 2004 34 million The revenue funding is ongoing and will remain available to the health boards...

Written Answers — Psychiatric Services: Psychiatric Services (30 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: In his report for the year ended 31 December 2001, the Inspector of Mental Hospitals expressed concern that psychiatric patients enjoy poorer health than the general population. The inspector stated that it is incumbent on service deliverers to frequently assess the physical health of in-patients. Regular eye-testing would obviously form part of such assessments. Patients should be encouraged...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: While I am sympathetic to the concerns regarding accountability outlined by the Senator, I am reluctant to provide for the provision of information to the Minister for the specific purpose of answering parliamentary questions. Section 16 already provides that the authority shall give the Minister such information regarding its performance as the Minister may require and I am satisfied that is...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: These are technical amendments inserting appropriate cross-references.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is another technical amendment removing a superfluous phrase.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: While I have some sympathy for the amendment, I am reluctant to accept it in the context of this Bill. The position regarding the involvement of members of the gardaí and the Defence Forces in providing security services while off-duty is as follows. As regards the gardaí, any such off duty activity is already prohibited. The Garda Síochána disciplinary regulations define prohibitive,...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This amendment raises the interesting issue of the eligibility of persons convicted of serious crimes to get licences to provide security services. The 1997 consultative group report recommended that an application to hold a licence should be refused outright by the authority if the applicant had been convicted of a range of listed serious offences. These include murder, rape or sexual...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: Section 29(7) makes it an offence for an individual to produce for inspection an identity card issued to another person by the authority or to forge or use a document purporting to be such an identity card. It does not deal specifically with a situation in which a person produces an identification document issued by a corresponding authority to another person or a forgery of such a document....

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is a minor drafting amendment.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is essentially a drafting amendment designed to clarify the content and improve the presentation of section 50(1).

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is essentially a drafting amendment designed to clarify the content and improve the presentation of paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 2.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: Schedule 2 sets out the procedure for dealing with appeals. The provisions regarding the service of a notice of appeal by an appellant and the making of submissions by other persons allow each person to make only one submission in regard to the appeal unless the appeal board requests further submissions or observations from that person. The proposed amendment is inconsistent with that...

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: The advice from the Attorney General is to proceed in the way we have. I cannot, therefore, accept the amendment.

Seanad: Private Security Services Bill 2001: Committee Stage. (31 Mar 2004)

Tim O'Malley: This is a technical amendment. It amends the paragraph dealing with oral hearings of appeals by inserting a new subparagraph in order to make it clear that the time limit within which a party to the appeal, other than the authority, can request an oral hearing shall be one month from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal.