Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 326: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent Health Service Executive statement that elective public and private admissions to Dublin hospitals from outside the Dublin region be from specialties unavailable in a patient's local region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1219/06]

Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 327: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the additional resources she intends to make available to regional hospitals in order that they can provide specialties that the Health Service Executive maintains are only available at Dublin hospitals; her views on whether this is an admission by the Health Service Executive that regional and local hospitals have been under-funded for years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1220/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 327 together.

The Deputy's questions relate to the development of regional self-sufficiency in the provision of hospital services which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to reply directly to the Deputy on the matter. The Deputy should note that considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of additional hospital services on a regional basis, in line with Government policy.