Michael Noonan (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to an application by an organisation to the Health Service Executive for grant aid for fit-out costs for its new facility at Castletroy, Limerick which proved unsuccessful; if she will take appropriate action to provide grant aid for the fit-out to ensure that funding from a charitable foundation (details supplied) can be drawn down to secure the full cost of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28196/07]

Jimmy Devins (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy. As the Deputy may be aware an additional sum of €75m for revenue purposes was provided to the Health Service for Disability Services in the 2007 Budget. This amount incorporates the 2007 element of the Government's multi-annual investment programme for the National Disability Strategy. This Strategy is committed to enhancing, the level and range of multidisciplinary support services to adults and children with an intellectual, physical and sensory disability and those with autism.