Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Question 595: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Meath and County Louth included on intellectual disability database in tabular form; the disability strategy for the Louth and Meath region; the services offered for those persons on the intellectual disability database in counties Louth and Meath; the body that provides disability services in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34309/11]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Question 596: To ask the Minister for Health the intellectual disability budget per head of population here for the year 2011; the intellectual disability budget per head of population in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34310/11]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 595 and 596 together. I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly in relation to the questions raised on the HSE's disability strategy for Counties Meath & Louth, the services offered for persons on the intellectual disability data base in those Counties, the bodies that provide disability services on behalf of the HSE in those Counties, and the disability budget per head of population in 2010 and in 2011.

With regard to the Deputy's question on the number of persons in County Meath and County Louth on the Intellectual Disability Database, I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Intellectual Disability Database (NIDD) is maintained by the Health Research Board (HRB). The HRB have advised me that the number of individuals registered on the NIDD in 2010 for Counties Meath & Louth are as follows:

According to the HRB, the Services being provided are as follows: