Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 June 2008
324 Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has proposals to develop or fund a drug treatment or rehabilitation centre at a location (details supplied); if so, the number of participants, the staffing levels and the nature of the rehabilitative services; if there has been prior community consultation on this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22904/08]
View answerThe Deputy's question relates 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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
325 Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for Health and Children if correspondence from the Health Service Executive to Dublin City Council in support of a hostel at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 3 is in order in view of the fact that the hostel is to be operated by a private company and that the HSE had maintained that planning permission was a matter for the private company and not the HSE. [22906/08]
View answerThe issue raised by the Deputy is a matter of corporate governance within the Health Service Executive. Accordingly my Department has brought the correspondence included in the Deputy's question to the attention of the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Health Services Executive for immediate attention and for a direct reply to the Deputy.
326 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make contact with the Health Service Executive Dublin mid-Leinster region with a view to requesting it to review and reverse its recent decision to close for a six-week period the day care centre at St. Mary’s Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22912/08]
View answerOperational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter 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.
328 Deputy Pat Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the future of physiotherapy services at a facility (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22915/08]
View answerSubject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive is therefore the appropriate body to consider the matters raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to collate the information requested by the Deputy and forward it to him directly.
