Liam Twomey
Question:166 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if the new health services executive will be established as a statutory body or an executive like the Eastern Regional Health Authority. [1879/04]
View answerDáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 January 2004
166 Dr. Twomey asked the Minister for Health and Children if the new health services executive will be established as a statutory body or an executive like the Eastern Regional Health Authority. [1879/04]
View answerThe interim health service executive which has been established will be given corporate body status under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act to allow it to undertake specific set-up tasks and to ensure the orderly transfer of functions to a single delivery system, Health Service Executive, from 2005. Work on the preparation of the necessary primary legislation to establish the Health Service Executive on a full statutory basis by January 2005, is well under way. The Health Service Executive will take over responsibility for health service delivery at that stage.