Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Health the decrease in funding provided for the disability sector in 2013 compared to 2012 in both financial terms and percentage terms; if this money will be ring-fenced by his Department for disability in its allocation to the Health Service Executive for 2012; if the HSE has any discretion to change this allocation and assign it to other health priorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57721/12]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Health the provision made in the estimates for 2013 for school leavers in the disability budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57723/12]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will in allocating funding to the disability sector be obliged to take into account the effects of cuts to date in each organisation; the efficiency measures already put in place by them; the differing ways the staff moratorium impacted on different organisations and the impact on service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57729/12]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 335, 337 and 338 together.

The funding situation for the disability sector in 2013 is not yet available pending the finalisation of the HSE's National Service Plan for 2013. Savings required globally from the Health Budget will have an impact on all services, including disability services, and it is expected that these will be outlined when the Minister for Health approves the National Service Plan in the near future.

In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service issues they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.