Seán Haughey (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 387: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason health boards will not accept applications from residents of nursing homes for electric wheelchairs; if such residents can obtain assistance elsewhere for this facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2910/04]

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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As responsibility for the provision of health services is, in the first instance, a matter of the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the health boards, my Department has asked the chief executive officers of the boards to examine this matter and to reply directly to the Deputy as a matter of urgency.