Alan Shatter
Ceist:15 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps, if any, being taken by his Department to ensure that medical equipment and devices in use are year 2000 compatible; the action, if any, which is being taken by his Department to ensure that no threat is posed to public health by medical devices which use computers or software including embedded microchips which are part of or components of devices or non-embedded software used with, or to control, devices or record data from devices or individual software programmes which use or process patient data to reach a diagnosis, aid in therapy or track donors and products upon the commencement of the new millennium; and the Government policy in this regard. [5942/98]