Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the meetings that were held by officials from her Department with Dundalk based private hospital promoters or correspondence entered into in June 2003 and to date in 2005; and the purpose of these meetings and correspondence. [32376/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Over the past year, I have had discussions with numerous people on a great variety of different proposals to develop private hospitals on public hospital grounds throughout the country. In relation to Dundalk, I met a group proposing to develop a private hospital in Dundalk in May 2005. Officials in my Department met the group in July 2003. I recently made a policy direction to the board of the Health Service Executive in relation to private hospital developments that would free up new public beds. It is for the HSE to implement this policy.