Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 195: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there is information available in her Department regarding the number of people on hospital trolleys in accident and emergency units in hospitals here on the first Monday of each month since October 2004; if she will make this information available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12987/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The information requested by the Deputy is not available within my Department. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for collecting data on activity in accident and emergency departments. Information on daily activity levels in accident and emergency departments since April 2005 is available on the HSE website at www.hse.ie. My Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have the information requested furnished directly to the Deputy.