Joe Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will report on the permanent appointment of consultant radiologists and a geriatrician at Mallow General Hospital and approval for a CT scanner. [12704/04]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I have already agreed that the appointment of a consultant geriatrician based at Mallow General Hospital should proceed. Details in relation to the funding of the post and the structure of the post with regard to the delivery of an appropriate service to the elderly population of the area are being finalised between my Department and the Southern Health Board.

The Southern Health Board has submitted applications for approval of consultant radiologist posts that would provide consultant radiologist cover for Mallow General Hospital. Funding for these posts will be considered in the context of available revenue funding in 2004.

The provision of CT facilities at Mallow is a matter for the Southern Health Board to progress and I believe a submission is to be completed shortly and will be sympathetically considered by my Department in the context of the overall capital development plan for the hospital.