217 Mr. Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to address a generic pandemic of influenza or any other transmittable disease here; the specific quarantine and isolation procedures which would be put into effect when required for both individuals and groups and geographical areas; the triggers required before quarantine of an individual, group or area is enforced; the stocks of vaccines and treatments in place to treat not only a specific threat such as avian influenza but also non-specific threats such as a different strain of influenza; the funding available during the first response to the outbreak of a pandemic to the groups involved; the triggers required to release such funding to both events and executive actions; the command structure available to be put in place at extremely short notice to co-ordinate national operations in the event of a pandemic; the person who is the head of such a command structure; the person who is the head of such a command structure in the event of absence or incapacity of the head of that command structure at the time of an outbreak the person or persons who are authorised to act as the head of the command structure; the organisations which would be involved in any such operations; the co-ordinated training and exercise which has taken place with the organisations involved; the results of these exercises; the cost of these exercises to the Exchequer both direct and indirect through redirection of resources from other duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30022/05]

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217 Mr. Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to address a generic pandemic of influenza or any other transmittable disease here; the specific quarantine and isolation procedures which would be put into effect when required for both individuals and groups and geographical areas; the triggers required before quarantine of an individual, group or area is enforced; the stocks of vaccines and treatments in place to treat not only a specific threat such as avian influenza but also non-specific threats such as a different strain of influenza; the funding available during the first response to the outbreak of a pandemic to the groups involved; the triggers required to release such funding to both events and executive actions; the command structure available to be put in place at extremely short notice to co-ordinate national operations in the event of a pandemic; the person who is the head of such a command structure; the person who is the head of such a command structure in the event of absence or incapacity of the head of that command structure at the time of an outbreak the person or persons who are authorised to act as the head of the command structure; the organisations which would be involved in any such operations; the co-ordinated training and exercise which has taken place with the organisations involved; the results of these exercises; the cost of these exercises to the Exchequer both direct and indirect through redirection of resources from other duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30022/05]

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