Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 16 September 2016
1137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 14 July 2016, if he will take steps in order that a staff member from St. Joseph's Service in Portrane, County Dublin, is available to residents while they are patients in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 (details supplied). [24935/16]
View answerUnder the Health Act 2004, the HSE is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services including such services to people with a disability. Section 10B of that Act (inserted by Section 6 of the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2013) prohibits the Minister for Health from, inter alia, directing the HSE as respects any function of the HSE relating to the provision of treatment or a health or personal social service to any particular person and prohibits the Minister from directing the HSE as respects any function of HSE relating to a decision concerning whether or not a particular person is eligible for a particular health or a personal social service or the extent to which and the manner in which a person is eligible for any such service.
The Minister is prohibited by law from directing the HSE as respects the provision of treatment or a health and personal social service to an individual.
As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.
