Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive in the mid-western region has contracted any beds from private nursing homes in County Tipperary. [13073/05]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for nursing home care in the Health Service Executive mid-western area. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's mid-western area to investigate the matter raised and to reply directly to the Deputy.