Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been informed of the design and construction problems which the Health Service Executive says are delaying the delivery of step-down-beds which would enable some of the nearly 700 people who are in acute beds and ready for discharge to such beds to be transferred; her views on these problems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22147/08]

Máire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that 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. The Executive has advised me that there are no design or construction problems which are delaying the delivery of step-down or residential beds and that all developments, once commenced on-site, have been completed on programme and within budget.