Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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376. To ask the Minister for Health if mental health illness will be included in the long-term illness scheme. [20067/14]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975 specifying the conditions covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme. The Health Services (Amendment) Regulations, 1971 (S.I. No. 277/1971) provides that Mental Illness in a person under 16 is covered under the scheme.