Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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1077. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the difficulties being faced by parents of children with diabetes who normally attend the consultant paediatrician specialising in diabetes in the Mid West Regional Hospital, as there is no specialist available, since the existing consultant went on leave (details supplied) [34637/13]

Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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1118. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a full time paediatric diabetic consultant post in Limerick Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35147/13]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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1147. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Health Service Executive will fill the paediatric diabetes consultant post in Limerick Regional Hospital, in view of the fact that since May a consultant paediatrician specialising in diabetes has been off sick and is not expected to return till October 2014. [35514/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1077, 1118 and 1147 together.

As this is a service issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in the matter.