Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to remove 24 hour anaesthetic cover from Ennis and Nenagh hospitals in July 2010 and to phase out critical care thereafter; the way this will affect the capacity of each of these hospitals to cater for medical patients who are inpatients and the range of services in the hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17497/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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As the Deputy will be aware, plans for services at individual hospitals, or regional networks of hospitals, are drawn up and implemented by the HSE, subject to overall Government policy, including policy on patient safety and quality care. However, I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to this Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to the Deputy, however, I would invite her to raise it with me again in due course.