Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason detailed replies have not issued to parliamentary questions previously placed (details supplied); and if a comprehensive reply will issue for each of the questions placed. [33986/08]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain her understanding of a situation (details supplied). [33987/08]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will seek full disclosure of all the comments in a case (details supplied) from the Health Service Executive, particularly from the two sets of investigators in this case. [33988/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 224 to 226, inclusive, together.

The previous Parliamentary Questions referred to by the Deputy related to the management and delivery of health and personal services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive (HSE) under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to furnish a report to me as soon as possible. On the basis of the information received from the HSE, I then wrote to the Deputy on 29 August 2008 to provide the relevant information to him.

In light of the further questions raised by the Deputy in relation to this particular case, my Department has requested the Executive to reply directly to the Deputy setting out the present position. The Deputy will appreciate that it would be inappropriate for me to intervene in a case of this nature, which has been the subject of proceedings before the Employment Appeals Tribunal.