Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which elderly patients have suffered from accidental falls in hospital in the past 12 months; the action taken to address this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2973/08]

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. 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.