QUESTION NO: 501, for WRITTEN ANSWER on 30/01/2008
* To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will publish the report of the Working Group on Cystic Fibrosis Services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. – David Stanton
REPLY
Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
QUESTION NO: 500 for WRITTEN ANSWER on 30/01/2008
* To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services available to cystic fibrosis patients in Cork; the locations where treatment can be received and the number of staff employed in CF services and their grades; the situation regarding the purpose built CF unit in Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. – David Stanton
REPLY
Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
