Written answers
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Department of Health and Children
Health Service Allowances
11:00 pm
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the domiciliary care allowance is provided to parents whose children have been diagnosed with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10686/07]
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the domiciliary care allowance is available to children who have been diagnosed on the autistic spectrum; the criteria they must meet in order to qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10687/07]
Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 and 198 together.
Domiciliary Care Allowance may be paid, as the Deputy is aware, in respect of eligible children from birth to the age of 16 who have a severe disability requiring continual or continuous attention which is substantially in excess of that normally required by a child of the same age. Eligibility is determined primarily by reference to the degree of additional care and attention required rather than to the type of disability involved.
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