Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 189: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the procedures which have been adopted by her Department when a person is diagnosed with an infectious disease. [17474/06]

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 191: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the policy of her Department in relation to the measures service-providers are expected to put in place when a patient is discovered to have contracted an infectious disease. [17476/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to deal with Questions Nos. 198 and 191 together.

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, my 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.

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the list of infectious diseases identified by her Department as affecting patients in hospitals here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17475/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Infectious Diseases Regulations, 1981 (as amended) include a schedule of diseases declaring certain diseases to be infectious diseases and requiring notification of these diseases. The current schedule of infectious diseases is contained in the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2003 (Statutory Instrument No. 707 of 2003) which came into force on 1 January 2004. This Department or the Health Service Executive have not produced a formal list of infectious diseases or Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs) that particularly effect patients in hospitals. However, among the more serious infections associated with hospital treatment are surgical site infections and bloodstream infections and particularly those resistant to antibiotics such as MRSA, Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) and Clostridium Difficile.

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received representations from medical professionals to include new types of or strains of infectious diseases on the infectious disease register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17477/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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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, my 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.