Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 256: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she or a person in her Department issued a directive to hospitals directing that, if necessary, elective surgery be cancelled to enable people in accident and emergency departments for more than three days to take up beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9413/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I have not directed any hospital to cancel elective surgery where necessary to make beds available for patients in accident and emergency departments, nor am I aware of anyone in my Department having done so.