Written answers

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Department of Health and Children

Care of the Elderly

2:00 pm

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding allocated for home care packages; if she will provide a breakdown of this funding by region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32922/08]

Photo of Máire HoctorMáire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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Home Care Packages form a key component of the Government's strategy of supporting older people to live at home and in their communities for as long as possible. In this context, funding of €120 million was allocated to the Health Service Executive over the years 2006-8 inclusive to underpin this initiative. The Deputy will appreciate that operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the detail of the allocations raised by him. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

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