Written answers

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Department of Health and Children

Services for People with Disabilities

9:00 pm

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify that the multi-annual funding for the disability sector promised in the programme for Government is being fulfilled in 2008. [19770/08]

Photo of John MoloneyJohn Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The Government has fulfilled it's promise in relation to the 2008 element of the Multi-Annual Investment Programme 2006-2009 by allocating additional funding of €50m to the HSE in the 2008 Budget. The Health Service Executive proposed to allocate this funding, in its approved service plan for 2008, as follows:

Services for Persons with an Intellectual Disability and those with Autism: €29.34m

Residential/Community Care — 200 additional residential places

Day Care — 467 additional day places

Respite Care — 53 additional respite places.

Services for Persons with Physical or Sensory Disabilities: €10.82m

Residential Care — 80 additional residential places

PA/Home Support hours — 200,000 additional PA/Home Support hours.

Disability Act: €9.8m

This will create 140 additional multidisciplinary team posts to provide assessment and ongoing intervention services to children with a disability and in particular with reference to the implementation of the Disability Act, 2005.

The Deputy's specific question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social 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.

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