Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 October 2004
48 Mr. Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has proposals for investigating ways to allow medical card holders to have free digital hearing aids as opposed to the older analogue models with digital features. [23366/04]
View answerThe Northern Area Health Board of the Eastern Regional Health Authority, ERHA, is responsible for procuring and supplying hearing aids for the health board community audiology service.
The chief executive officer of the ERHA has informed my Department that a tendering process for the supply of hearing aids, including digital hearing aids, is under way; the chief executive officer expects this process to be completed at the end of the year. The prospects of offering contracts for the supply of digital hearing aids will be considered at the end of this tendering process.
