Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a number of beds at St. Joseph's Hospital, Longford which are currently vacant due to a failure to negotiate agreed staffing levels at this hospital; the length of time these beds are empty; the effort that has been made to resolve the impasse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43304/06]

Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will give details on the recent renovation and extension at St. Joseph's Hospital in Longford; the cost of these works; the completion date; and the number of extra beds available at this hospital as a result of those works. [43305/06]

Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the bed compliment at St. Joseph's Hospital in Longford each year for the past five years; the expected bed compliment when beds in the recently renovated and new building section are brought on stream. [43306/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 206 to 208, inclusive, together.

The Government's sustained high level of investment in healthcare has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, the sum available for expenditure in health under the Health Service Executive's capital plan is €555 million.

Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. This also includes responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the development(s) referred to in the Deputy's question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have all the matters raised by the Deputy investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.