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No. 47 of 2004

Health Bill 2004

Public bill · Government · Presented

Would create the Health Service Executive as a single national body, replacing health boards and several other agencies and taking over their staff, assets and responsibilities. It would aim to coordinate services more effectively, while adding public and patient involvement, clearer financial oversight and formal procedures for handling complaints.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to establish the health service executive and to provide for the dissolution of the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the Northern Area Health Board, the East Coast Area Health Board, the South-Western Area Health Board, the Health Boards established under the Health Act 1970 and certain other bodies; to provide for the transfer of the functions of the dissolved bodies and their employees to the health service executive; to establish mechanisms for involving public representatives, users of health and personal social services and other members of the public in matters relating to those services; to establish a statutory framework for handling certain complaints relating to health and personal social services; to establish mechanisms for the future dissolution of certain other health bodies and for the transfer of their functions and employees to the health service executive; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 16 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Health and Children Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Health Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages.
    Seanad
  • Health Bill 2004: Motion for Earlier Signature.
    Seanad
  • Health Bill 2004: Committee Stage.
    Seanad
  • Health Bill 2004: Second Stage.
    Seanad
  • Health Bill 2004: Motion to Recommit.
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages.
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Referral to Select Committee.
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Order for Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Second Stage.
    Dáil
  • Health Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed).
    Dáil
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