Hospital Services.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 January 2006

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

Questions (223, 224, 225, 226, 227)

Mary Upton

Question:

322 Dr. Upton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Questions Nos. 218 and 238 of 22 November 2005, if all organs, and specifically lungs, donated here are first made available to the Mater transplant unit for the transplantation programme in the Mater Hospital; if only those organs that are not suitable to the Mater Hospital are subsequently made available to Newcastle Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3236/06]

Mary Upton

Question:

323 Dr. Upton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if Irish patients suffering from cystic fibrosis who are on the transplant list are disadvantaged since the new formal arrangements for organ donations have been put in place between the Mater and Newcastle Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3237/06]

Mary Upton

Question:

324 Dr. Upton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of lung transplants for Irish patients which were carried out in Newcastle Hospital in 2003, 2004 and 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3238/06]

Mary Upton

Question:

325 Dr. Upton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the parties which are involved in the formal arrangement that is in place between the UK transplant programme and the Mater Hospital organ retrieval team; if the formal arrangement involves her Department, the Health Service Executive or others; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3239/06]

Mary Upton

Question:

326 Dr. Upton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the formal arrangement between the UK transplant programme and the Mater Hospital retrieval team is a written agreement; if the agreement is open to viewing by the public or interested and concerned parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3240/06]

Written answers

Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children (Ms Harney)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 322 to 326, inclusive, together.

The Deputy's questions relate to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. The parties to the agreement referred to by the Deputy are the HSE and the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have these matters investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Question No. 327 answered with QuestionNo. 159.