Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital beds in the public and private sectors available in each year from 1990 to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26698/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Neither my Department nor the Health Service Executive has a direct responsibility for the operation and management of private hospitals. I am not therefore in a position to provide the information sought by the Deputy in respect of private hospitals. My Department in conjunction with the HSE will endeavour to compile the extensive data sought by the Deputy in relation to acute public hospital beds and I will be in communication with him in due course.