Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Health the personal assistant hours provided nationally by the Health Service Executive in 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2170/13]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Health the personal assistant hours provided by the Health Service Executive in County Donegal in 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2171/13]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 214 and 215 together.

This Government currently provides funding of over €1.5 billion to the Disability Services Programme through the Health Service Executive's (HSE) National Service Plan for 2013 and is committed to protecting frontline services for people with disabilities to the greatest possible extent. The Minister for Health is working to ensure that protection is afforded to the disability sector and the Social Care area as a whole. In 2013, the HSE is seeking to maximise the provision of services within available resources and to maintaining a consistent level to that provided in 2012, by providing the following specialist disability services: residential services to over 9,000 people with a disability; day services to over 22,000 people with intellectual and physical disabilities; residential respite support for over 7,500 people with intellectual and physical disabilities; and 1.68m hours of Personal Assistant / Home Support Hours. I have asked the HSE to reply directly to you with regard to your questions on the provision of personal assistant hours both nationally and in Co. Donegal for the years 2010 to 2012.