Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of children with diabetes being treated by the paediatric diabetes unit at Cork University Hospital has risen from 120 patients in 2002 to 207 in 2006; the extra resources which will be given to the unit to cope with this extra demand; her views on whether there is an urgent need to have a dedicated medical person appointed to the unit to give advice to parents on all aspects of their children's health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35690/06]

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