John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if respite and palliative care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3483/07]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive (HSE) under the Health Act 2004. The HSE is therefore the appropriate body to address the issue raised by the Deputy. It is open to the person concerned to contact the HSE to discuss a care plan which meets the needs of the patient, having due regard to the optimum location for treatment.