Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the home care attendants employed by the Health Service Executive in Kildare and west Wicklow are paid travel allowances using the eastern community works computer system; if so, the reason there is a delay in calculating the paying of travel expenses and arrears to the home help employees in Kildare and west Wicklow; if the system is programmed to pay existing employees within the HSE through the same system in view of the fact that both sets of employees are entitled to the same expenses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17257/08]

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.