Frances Fitzgerald
Question:137 Ms F. Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Health the amount of money which was made available by his Department to the Eastern Health Board special hospital care programme under the Child Care Act, in 1993.
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137 Ms F. Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Health the amount of money which was made available by his Department to the Eastern Health Board special hospital care programme under the Child Care Act, in 1993.
The package of new child care service developments that I approved for the Eastern Health Board in 1993 included a new post of consultant psychiatrist as well as an additional post each of psychologist, psychiatric social worker and community psychiatric nurse for the health board's special hospital programme. The full year cost of this initiative is in the region of £140,000.