Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she and the Health Service Executive have held discussions regarding the provision of a full needs assessment for carers as requested by the associations (details supplied); and if she will request to provision of the necessary funding in budget 2009. [33292/08]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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My colleague, the Minister for Health and Children, met the Carers' Association on 26 September last when, among other things, they set out their view that the forthcoming Carers' Strategy should provide for a full needs assessment for carers. Such an assessment would encompass more than health matters. In so far as the health matters are concerned, she has noted the suggestion in the context of the development of the health services generally.