Trevor Sargent
Question:469 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Health and Children the way in which he is to provide necessary services for the 1,711 individuals with intellectual disability living at home who require a full-time residential service, for the 861 who require a day service, for the 1,014 who require a respite service and for over 400 people with intellectual disability living in totally unsuitable conditions in long stay psychiatric hospitals in view of the fact that there is no funding allocated in 2003 to provide new service developments; the way in which he expects parents and their children who in many cases are adults to cope with this lack of funding; and the way in which parents are to address their concerns of what will happen their children after parents die. [7978/03]