James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of the new community nursing home opened recently in Cherry Orchard Dublin; the time frame from the original decision to approve the unit by the HSE, to planning permission, to final construction and opening of the unit; the locations of any further units; the number of beds in those units and the target deadline for the opening of those units; if funding for the requisite staffing for those planned units is in place; if the recruitment embargo does not apply to these proposed community units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13764/08]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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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. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter 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.