Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of the promised 255 residential places, 85 new respite places and 535 new day places for persons with an intellectual disability as promised and budgeted for in Budget 2007, that have come on stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20911/08]

John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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As part of the Multi-Annual Investment Programme 2006-2009 under the Disability Strategy, the Government provided the Health Service Executive with an additional €75m in both 2006 and 2007. This funding included monies to provide new and enhanced services for people with disabilities, to implement Part 2 of the Disability Act 2005, which came into effect on June 1st 2007 for the under 5's and also for the continuation of the implementation of the transfer of persons with intellectual disability from psychiatric hospitals and other inappropriate placements.

I am informed by the HSE that the following outputs were achieved in relation to Intellectual Disability and Autism Services at the end of December 2007: