Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when does she expect that legislation on eligibility and provision of entitlements for elderly people will be enacted. [35523/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy may be aware that work has commenced on a new legislative framework to provide for clear statutory provisions on eligibility and entitlement for health and personal social services for the whole population. The aim is to produce a clear set of statutory provisions that ensure equity and transparency and to bring the system up to date with developments in service delivery and technology that have occurred since the Health Act 1970. Publication is expected in 2007.