Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 889: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has allocated the necessary funding to the Health Service Executive to enable the immediate construction of a modular unit at Letterkenny General Hospital providing for 31 beds and the extra staff required. [2473/07]

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 890: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a firm commitment as to when the modular unit at Letterkenny General Hospital, providing for 31 beds, will be operational to give urgent relief to the ongoing beds crisis at that hospital. [2474/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 889 and 890 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 €559.5 million.

The HSE has responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the developments referred to in the Deputy's question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.