Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 242: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason the ambulance services in the Western Health Board region no longer provide transport to elderly persons who do not have the resources to pay for transport to attend hospital appointments; and the reason there has been a change in this issue. [24349/04]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Responsibility for the provision of ambulance services in County Mayo rests with the Western Health Board. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the board to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and to reply to him directly.