Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 477: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a programme for the provision of State nursing homes throughout the country similar to the one built in 2002 in Maynooth, County Kildare, at a cost of €5.4 million will be implemented (details supplied). [2419/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, the Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

The report of the working group on long-term care, chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach with officials from the Departments of Finance, Health and Children and Social and Family Affairs, has been submitted to Government.