Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 300: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of extra nurses, therapists, paramedics, home care attendants and home helps who have been employed by the ERHA since 1998. [14154/04]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The information, as recorded in the health service personnel census, is outlined in the following tabular statement. The Eastern Regional Health Authority was not established until March 2000. Therefore, the figures refer to the number of health service personnel employed in the eastern region. In the region home help services are delivered through voluntary agencies that are not recorded in the census.