Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 31 January 2013
212. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health the person that is undertaking the review of the national Traveller health advisory committee; the date on which it will be completed; when the next meeting of the national Traveller health advisory committee will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4945/13]
View answerMy Department undertook to conduct a review of the Traveller Health Advisory Committee (THAC) at the end of 2012. An external reviewer is to be charged with completing the review subject to a process of appointment that is currently underway. It is hoped that the review will commence in the coming weeks and take approximately 4-6 weeks to carry out, at which time a report will be submitted to my Department for its consideration. Meetings of the THAC have been suspended pending the outcome of the review.
