Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money her Department has invested in the carers development officer role in a centre (details supplied); the changes this role has made to the carer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33900/06]

Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 358: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role the carers development officer appointed in 2002 to a centre (details supplied) has played since appointment; the way in which to contact this person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33907/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 355 and 358 together.

The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which is responsible for the management and delivery of health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the funding of these services. However, the centre referred to by the Deputy is a private company and therefore not within the remit of the HSE. I have however forwarded the Deputy's questions to the HSE and asked that it sends any information it may have to the Deputy as a matter of urgency.

It should be noted that the only monies available to the Department are provided through Lottery funding. No such funding has been provided to the centre in question to fund a development officer role since its establishment in 2002.

I understand that the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs may have provided funding to this centre under the Dormant Accounts Fund.