Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department is costing the picture archiving communication system which would help resolve storage problems in hospitals; the hospitals that have received funding for the PACS; if St. Luke's Hospital, County Kilkenny is under consideration for funding for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17964/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Government's sustained high level of investment in health care has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, the sum available for expenditure in health under the Health Service Executive's capital plan is €546 million.

The HSE has responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the developments referred to in the Deputy's question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.