Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive in the western region requests a consent form from persons when they have authorised their Houses of the Oireachtas Members to make inquiries on their behalf, when this system does not apply to all other health board jurisdictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28779/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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My Department's enquiries into this matter have ascertained that the HSE has issued a standard operating procedure to all staff on foot of the Data Commissioner's recently published "Guidance Note For Data Controllers On The Release of Personal Data to Public Representatives".