Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Health Information and Quality Authority legislation to be introduced. [35524/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Earlier this year I published, for consultation purposes, the draft Heads and General Scheme of a Bill providing for the establishment of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). The draft Heads have been revised following on from the consultation process and I will be seeking Government approval within the next few weeks to commence drafting the full Bill. As my Department has been working very closely with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel on the draft Heads, work is at an advanced stage on the draft provisions and I intend to publish the Bill during the Autumn Session.