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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 26 May 1998

Vol. 491 No. 3

Written Answers. - Residential Care.

Mary Hanafin

Question:

296 Ms Hanafin asked the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown by health board area of the number of young people aged 18 years and under deemed by those health boards to be in need of five or seven day residential care. [12009/98]

Information on the residential needs of young people with a mental handicap aged 18 or under is set out in the following table. The needs of the 313 children who are deemed to require five or seven day residential care were included in the total requirement for 1,439 residential placements identified in my Department's report, An Assessment of Need for Services to Persons with a Mental Handicap 1997-2001, which was published in April 1997. Four hundred and ninety-five residential places have been put in place since then. It will not be possible to identify how many of these young people have received their residential placement until the national intellectual disability database is updated later this year. As the Deputy will also be aware there are some 600 children in residential care under the Child Care Act, 1991.

Number of young people with a mental handicap in receipt of, or in need of, five or seven day residential care, by health board areax

Health Board

Children receiving 5 or 7 day residential care from the Mental Handicap Services*

Children who require 5 or 7 day residential care from the Mental Handicap Services*

Eastern Health Board

211

137

Midland Health Board

28

29

Mid-Western Health Board

90

3

North-Eastern Health Board

18

5

North-Western Health Board

46

13

South-Eastern Health Board

95

9

Southern Health Board

130

53

Western Health Board

41

64

659

313

*Source: National Intellectual Disability Database, October 1996.
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