Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the Health Service Executive authorises the release of the funding necessary to allow the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford, a patient in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, to care for them at home with all necessary assistance from the health services. [37085/08]

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 issue 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.

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the health service entitlements, including hospital services, of a child of a parent working and paying tax and PRSI in this jurisdiction but living in the Six Counties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37086/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Regulation (EC) 1408/71 provides for the coordination of social security systems, including healthcare, among EU member states, with the aim of ensuring the free movement of persons. It provides, inter alia, that persons and their dependants, who are employed in one member state and residing in another are entitled to receive healthcare provided by the state of residence, as though they were covered by that member state's health system, with the cost to be borne by the member state of employment.

Persons residing in Northern Ireland but who are employed in this state and who return to Northern Ireland every day or at least once a week are classed as frontier workers under the Regulation. The Regulation entitles such persons to access healthcare in either jurisdiction. However, their dependants are treated in the same way as the dependants of other persons employed in one member state and residing in another, i.e. they are entitled to receive healthcare in their country of residence only.