Seamus Brennan
Question:95 Mr. S. Brennan asked the Minister for Health the plans, if any, he has to address the serious shortage of day and residential places for mentally handicapped people; if there are currently 2,950 mentally handicapped people who have no service, broken down into 1,500 seeking day places and 1,450 seeking residential places; the number of people in these categories in each of the years from 1992 to date, together with the number of places available in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21320/96]