Tom Sheahan (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will direct local Health Service Executive management in the HSE south to honour their commitment to psychiatric nurses in County Kerry and implement the one and a half hour reduction in the working week of all nurses in County Kerry. [35621/08]

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. 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.