Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)

Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there are only three long-term care beds in Dublin north per 1,000 people over 65 years when the national average is 22; her plans to address this anomaly in view of the fact that two hospitals in the catchment area, Beaumont Hospital and the Mater Hospital, have lost in the region of 57,000 bed days in a single year, which is the equivalent of a 150 bed hospital, as a consequence of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42481/08]

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