54 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which policy within the Health Service is shared, directed or dictated by or between her Department and the Health Service Executive; the degree to which any evaluation has been done as to the provision and delivery of the comprehensive range of health service in line with best practice throughout the EU; if she is concerned that the full range of services as originally intended are not being provided at many of the general hospitals throughout the country due to a combination of inadequate staffing levels, insufficient or inappropriately directed funding, repetitive, time-wasting and bureaucratic procedures, unclear responsibilities, job descriptions and management direction, the growth of which appears to be a massive bureaucracy that is not transparent, is not accountable and is hugely expensive and overloaded with management; if her attention has been drawn to the deep concern of many dedicated persons within the service who are dismayed at the degree to which services now fail to meet adequately, efficiently and cost effectively the health requirements of the public, particularly having regard to the extent of erosion in funding and delivery of services by the private sector resulting in costly duplication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20227/10]

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54 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which policy within the Health Service is shared, directed or dictated by or between her Department and the Health Service Executive; the degree to which any evaluation has been done as to the provision and delivery of the comprehensive range of health service in line with best practice throughout the EU; if she is concerned that the full range of services as originally intended are not being provided at many of the general hospitals throughout the country due to a combination of inadequate staffing levels, insufficient or inappropriately directed funding, repetitive, time-wasting and bureaucratic procedures, unclear responsibilities, job descriptions and management direction, the growth of which appears to be a massive bureaucracy that is not transparent, is not accountable and is hugely expensive and overloaded with management; if her attention has been drawn to the deep concern of many dedicated persons within the service who are dismayed at the degree to which services now fail to meet adequately, efficiently and cost effectively the health requirements of the public, particularly having regard to the extent of erosion in funding and delivery of services by the private sector resulting in costly duplication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20227/10]

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