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APPENDIX IX.

Dental and Aural Appliances Regulations, 1965 [S.I. No. 190 of 1965]

An Rúnaí,

An Roinn Sláinte.

I am directed by the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments to refer to the explanatory note appended to the Dental and Aural Appliances Regulations, 1965 (S.I. No. 190 of 1965).

It is the Committee’s view that the explanatory note ought to make it clear what restrictions and conditions are being removed by the instrument. If the Committee is correct in its interpretation the instrument removes the control hitherto exercised by the Minister over the expenditure of health authorities on the provision of aural appliances and relieves health authorities of the obligation to have particular regard to the needs of particular classes for such appliances. The Committee would be glad to have the observations of your Department in the matter.

M. G. KILROY,

Cléireach an Roghchoiste.

16 Nollaig, 1965.

Clerk,	28 Mártá, 1966.
Select Committee on Statutory Instruments,
Seanad Éireann.

I am directed by the Minister for Health to refer to your minute of 16 Nollaig, 1965 on the Dental and Aural Appliances Regulations, 1965 (S.I. No. 190 of 1965). When these Regulations were made a press statement explaining their purpose was issued. A copy of this is attached. The Committee will thus see that the Minister appreciated the importance at the time of explaining in some detail the purpose of the amending regulations. However, he does not agree that such a statement needed to be embodied in the explanatory note printed with the text of the Regulations, for the reasons given in to-day’s minute on the Institutional Assistance Regulations, 1965.

P. Ó MUIREADAIGH.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

The following statement has been issued by the Government Information Bureau on behalf of the Minister for Health:—

Under Regulations made in 1961, health authorities were obliged, when supplying hearing aids to persons in the lower income group, to limit expenditure on such aids in any one year to a sum fixed by the Minister for Health and also to give priority to children and other special groups. For the past two years or so it has been found unnecessary to restrict expenditure on the supply of hearing aids to eligible persons, because of the organised hearing aid service now operated by the National Organisation for Rehabilitation for patients referred by health authorities, and the Minister for Health has therefore revoked the restrictive clauses in the 1961 Regulations.

2nd September, 1965.