Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that there are 114 people in County Kildare awaiting placement in public nursing homes in County Kildare; and if she will acquire public spaces in private nursing homes in the interim to reduce this backlog. [31595/07]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, 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 under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The 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.

Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she intends to provide additional public nursing homes in County Kildare similar to the excellent facility located at the Harbour in Maynooth. [31596/07]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, 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 under the Health Act 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. The 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.