Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if public treatment clinics for hip dysplasia in Dublin and Cork are to be discontinued from the end of May 2008; if this treatment will in future be provided to private patients only; the number of children availing of the service; the number of patients who will be affected by this withdrawal of service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21732/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. 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.