Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 328: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home helps in the Kildare west Wicklow area have to wait until 2008 for the payment of their travel allowance payments and arrears; if the matter will be addressed by the use of the Health Service Executive computer system analysing and processing the claims to ensure payment before Christmas 2007; the reason there is a different mechanism of payroll process for the eastern community works area than other areas of the HSE and that all payments within the Health Service are not determined by the HSE computer payment system; when the process will be changed to ensure that the travel allowances are paid on time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34380/07]

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 and funding for all health services, including the payment of travel allowances to eligible personnel, has been provided as part of its overall vote. The Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issues raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have these matters investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.