Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will provide adequate funding for the transport needs of older and ill people requiring essential hospital investigations and treatment; her views on whether the funding required by her Department to the Health Service Executive west needs to be increased in order that the old and the ill can get to hospital for appointments; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that lack of funding by her to the HSE west is putting the emergency ambulance service in jeopardy by underfunding as the money supplied to run the HSE west ambulance service has not kept pace with the increased transport demands of ill and older people; when adequate funding will be provided to supply ambulance transport to persons who need it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35619/06]

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