Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 8,000 leaving certificate pupils and several hundred junior certificate pupils will be leaving secondary schools in west Dublin and North Kildare incompletely vaccinated, against the recommendations of the 2002 National Immunisation Guidelines for Ireland in view of the country being awash with 70,000 doses of DiTe vaccine; if this difficulty has been communicated to her Department by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30754/07]

Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the National Immunisation programme; DiTe or Td vaccine for secondary school pupils as advised by the 2002 National Immunisation Guidelines for Ireland has never been implemented in the former ERHA region and is five years overdue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30751/07]

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason second level schools in west Dublin and North Kildare are being denied important vaccinations in the former ERHA area headquartered in Naas and other parts of the country; the reason the national immunisation programme of Td vaccinations in secondary schools as advised by the 2002 National Immunisation Guidelines for Ireland has never been implemented in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30758/07]

Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the National Immunisation Office has not released the DiTe vaccine for immunisation in schools despite receiving a large consignment from SSI recently and that doctors are available to vaccinate; if her attention has been drawn to the concern being expressed by parents, teachers and parents in schools in relation to diphtheria and tetanus boosters, which students were supposed to belatedly receive in November 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30759/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 183, 220, 223 and 224 together.

The Deputies' questions relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Services 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 Deputies.