Motions

WHEREAS it is provided in Section 3(3) of the Regional Health Authorities Act, 1994 that the Minister of Health may by order subject to the negative resolution of Parliament amend the First Schedule, which lists the names and boundaries of the Regional Health Authorities;

AND WHEREAS by Legal Notice No. 245 an Order made on the 13th August, 2004, the Minister of Health dissolved the North West Regional Health Authority and in its place created the North Regional Health Authority and the North Central Regional Health Authority;

AND WHEREAS the said Order knows as the Regional Health Authorities (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2004, was laid in the Senate by the Minister of Health on the 21st day of September, 2004;

AND WHEREAS the addition to, and configuration of the Regional Health Authorities as contained in the said Order do not allow for the efficient delivery of health care to the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago;

BE IT RESOLVED that steps be taken to have the Regional Health Authorities (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2004 annulled.

By Senator Wade Mark