Written answers
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Department of Health and Children
Services for People with Disabilities
11:00 am
Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if acute asthma is included as an ailment for entitlement to domiciliary care allowance in circumstances where a child of three years of age suffers with this ailment and whose mother has to provide a level of care and attention significantly above what would be required for a healthy child of three years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11524/07]
Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)
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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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