Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the provision of additional public nursing homes in County Kildare is included in the Health Service Executive draft capital plan for 2008 which is presently with her for approval. [11110/08]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will appreciate, 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. This includes prioritising projects at local level to be progressed each year, in line with its overall funding resources. A draft Capital Plan 2008 has recently been completed by the Executive. This is at present being considered in detail by my Department , in conjunction with the Department of Finance. It is my intention that this process should be completed as quickly as possible. The Plan will be published as a whole upon its approval. In the circumstances, it would not be appropriate to indicate at this stage what additional public nursing home provision will be approved for specific areas of the country.