Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive's allocation of funding for people with disabilities for 2008 has been given to the various HSE regions, including funding for people with autistic spectrum disorders due to leave school in June 2008; if not, the reason for the delay; the breakdown of the allocations on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20994/08]

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been a delay on the part of the Health Service Executive in allocating funding for disability services allocated for 2008, including funding for transitional services for children with autism completing school in 2008 and requiring assistance in their transition to day services in the autumn. [21046/08]

Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason Health Service Executive funding to providers of autistic spectrum disorders has not been allocated for 2008; the further reason in view of the difficulties with change experienced by such suffers, no services are already in place to meet the needs of June 2008 school leavers and sufferers leaving rehabilitative training for a day care service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21060/08]

John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 261, 266 and 268 together.

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 5s and also for the continuation of the implementation of the transfer of persons with intellectual disability from psychiatric hospitals and other inappropriate placements. A further €50m investment was announced in the 2008 Budget.

The Deputy's specific questions relate 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.