Medical Cards.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 2 March 2010

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Ceisteanna (193)

Ulick Burke

Ceist:

237 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Health and Children the additional cost to her Department and to the Health Service Executive of the change of centralisation of the medical card processing from the regions to the Dublin centre and the number of jobs lost in the regional centres; the number of jobs required in the new centralised centre; the reason that this information was not supplied in my previous Parliamentary Question; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10601/10]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Health and Children (Deputy Mary Harney)

The issues raised by the Deputy are service matters. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to address these matters and also the matters raised in the Deputy's previous Parliamentary Question and to have replies issued directly to the Deputy. I wish to advise the Deputy that, due to an intensification of industrial action in the public service by members of IMPACT, the HSE may not be in a position to provide a response to this Parliamentary Question within the normal timeframe.