James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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210. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines regarding travel expenses for local authority members who are also members of the HSE regional health forums in view of their additional travel burden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18838/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Section 42 of the Health Act 2004 provided for the setting up of a system of four Regional Health Forums.

Section 42(9) provides for the travel expenses and states that a member of a regional health forum, or a committee established by such forum, may be paid by the Health Service Executive travelling and subsistence allowances in accordance with such scales as may, from time to time, be approved by this Department, with the consent of the Minister for Finance.