Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 454: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the health allowances that may be awarded by the Health Service Executive or her Department; the number of recipients of each allowance; the cost of each allowance in 2007 or the most recent year for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2253/08]

Jimmy Devins (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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My Department administers an allowance for victims of thalidomide. There are a total of 31 people in receipt of the Thalidomide Allowance. The total cost of that allowance in 2007 was €346,523.

In addition the Health Service Executive administers four allowances namely, Domiciliary Care Allowance, Blind Welfare Allowance, Mobility Allowance and Infectious Diseases Maintenance Allowance. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the information requested by the Deputy in relation to these allowances forwarded directly to the Deputy.