Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the new care home in Balrothery and in the former Beaumont Convalescent Home has not been opened on schedule; and if this is resulting in patients remaining in Beaumont without the opportunity for convalescent therapies and is preventing admissions to a hospital which already has the worst problems in handling accident and emergency caseload here. [26722/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I understand that the newly-opened care home in Balrothery is a private facility and that the Beaumont Convalescent Home (now known as "Rockfield") is run by a voluntary body. Therefore, I must advise the Deputy that the issue of when these homes were scheduled to open is a matter for the individual home. 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 includes responsibility for arrangements pertaining to contract beds and admissions to acute hospitals such as Beaumont. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to respond to the issue raised by the Deputy. 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.