Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [17817/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. The Executive is, therefore, the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. 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.

Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not receiving physiotherapy which was recommended and which they require as rehabilitation arising from a stroke that they suffered and who was a patient at the Cork University Hospital and subsequently St. Finbar's Hospital. [17821/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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As the Deputy may be aware, an additional sum of €75 million for revenue purposes was provided to the Health Service Executive for Disability Services in the 2007 Budget. This sum incorporates the 2007 element of the Government's multi-annual investment programme for the National Disability Strategy. This Strategy is committed to enhancing the level and range of multi-disciplinary support services to adults and children with an intellectual, physical and sensory disability and those with autism, including the provision of additional resources towards therapy services.

The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.