Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 375: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the report of the investigation into the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, will be published; if she has considered the report; the action she proposes to take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25162/05]

Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 389: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Lourdes hospital, Drogheda, inquiry report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25288/05]

Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 390: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the proposed redress board for the victims of unnecessary surgical procedures at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, will be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25289/05]

Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 459: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Lourdes inquiry report will be published; when the redress board will be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25961/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 375, 389, 390 and 459 together.

My Department is advised that the work of the inquiry is at an advanced stage. In March 2005, I met representatives of Patient Focus, a group representing a number of patients who attended the maternity unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. I advised the group that I would await the report of the inquiry before consulting with Government on the request for the establishment of a redress board. I intend to meet the group again following receipt of the report of the Inquiry.