Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received and studied the recent submission from an organisation (details supplied) with particular reference to the identification of the most urgently required provisions in term of facilities or funding; the extent to which she expects to meet such requirements in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14713/08]

Jimmy Devins (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I met with representatives of Muscular Dystrophy Ireland in October 2007 and discussed the issue raised by the Deputy. I subsequently wrote to Mr. Joe Mooney, Director of Muscular Dystrophy Ireland on 7 February 2008 outlining the position in relation to funding research trials into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in the United Kingdom. There is no mechanism or budget for Government funding of U.K. health research.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, arising from the recent submission submitted to her Department by an organisation (details supplied), she has examined the extent to which these deserving needs can be met in the short or medium term; her proposals to meet such requests in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14714/08]

Jimmy Devins (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I met with representatives of Muscular Dystrophy Ireland in October 2007 and discussed the issue raised by the Deputy. I subsequently wrote to Mr. Joe Mooney, Director of Muscular Dystrophy Ireland on 7 February 2008 outlining the position in relation to funding research trials into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in the United Kingdom. There is no mechanism or budget for Government funding of U.K. health research.