Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I saw the note from the Deputy on that last week and I got a note this morning which informed me that funding to open those beds in Letterkenny had not been approved but it did not give me a reason as to why not. I asked why 170 additional beds were funded in other hospitals around the country and why Letterkenny did not make the cut. I do not know the answer to that yet, but perhaps the Deputy would get a quicker response by asking about it in the form of a parliamentary question or a Topical Issue to the Minister for Health.

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