Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 511: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that is being made in the programme to transfer people with an intellectual disability inappropriately placed in psychiatric hospitals to more suitable accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38578/09]

John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The position in relation to the transfer of people with an intellectual disability currently residing in psychiatric hospitals is being addressed as part of the HSE's Vision for Change Implementation Plan. Closure plans which are currently being developed for large psychiatric hospitals, where there are approximately 300 people with intellectual disability, will include arrangements for the transfer of those individuals to appropriate community residential facilities.

As the Deputy's question relates to service matters I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.