Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason special tricycles for children with moderate or severe learning difficulties are subsidised by health boards in some parts of the country but are not subsidised in the SWAHB region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16484/04]

Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)
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Responsibility for the provision of health services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism in the south-west region is a matter, in the first instance, for the Eastern Regional Health Authority. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive officer of the Eastern Regional Health Authority to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and reply to him directly.