Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 September 2008
579 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Health and Children the annual expenditure by her Department and appropriate bodies in providing new beds in public nursing homes for each of the years 2002 to 2007 and to date in 2008; if this information will be provided in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30881/08]
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. The 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.
