Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is a policy decision to introduce newborn hearing screening; if so, a time frame for the introduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20037/06]

Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has funding for newborn hearing screening included in the budget for the Health Service Executive. [20038/06]

Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a policy decision has been made to introduce newborn hearing screening. [20042/06]

Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has included funding for newborn hearing screening in the budget for the Health Service Executive. [20043/06]

John Cregan (Limerick West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a policy for the introduction of newborn hearing screening here; if her Department has included funding for newborn hearing screening in the budget for the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20080/06]

Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to introduce hearing screening for all newborn babies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19303/06]

Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has made a policy decision to introduce newborn hearing screening. [19491/06]

Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has included funding for newborn hearing screening in the budget for the Health Service Executive. [19492/06]

Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 228: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 9 May 2006, if she will address the concerns of the National Association for Deaf People (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19526/06]

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 243: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a policy decision has been made to introduce hearing screening for newborn babies. [19753/06]

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department has included funding for newborn hearing screening in the Health Service Executive's budget. [19754/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 160 to 164, inclusive, 195, 215, 216, 228, 243 and 244 together.

My Department has recently received a copy of the Report of the Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Working Group and is in discussion with the Health Services Executive in relation to its implementation.