Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 September 2008
531 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health and Children when the second general surgeon at Roscommon County Hospital will be appointed on a full-time permanent basis; if this appointment is dependent on funding being made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30523/08]
View answer532 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health and Children when the competition for a general surgeon at Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway, will be completed and a person appointed on a full-time permanent basis; if this appointment is dependent on funding being made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30524/08]
View answer533 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health and Children when the new appointment of a surgeon with a speciality in gastrointestinal surgery will be appointed to Roscommon and Portiuncula Hospitals on a full-time permanent basis; if this appointment is dependent on funding being made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30525/08]
View answer534 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health and Children when the third consultant physician at Roscommon County Hospital will be appointed on a full-time permanent basis; if this appointment is dependent on funding being made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30526/08]
View answer647 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps which are being put in place to provide additional staffing for the high dependency unit at Roscommon County Hospital; the number of occasions in the last 12 months that this facility was not available to admit patients due to staffing shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30527/08]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 531 to 534, inclusive, and 647 together.
Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 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 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.
