Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when home help will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15891/08]

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 case 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.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if care assistants are employed in all Health Service Executive areas; the role and functions of these assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15918/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive is the appropriate body to consider the 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.

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has issued new service level agreement templates to voluntary providers of disability services; if a deadline has been set for having all disability services provided by voluntary providers to be covered by comprehensive service level agreements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15919/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.