Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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240. To ask the Minister for Health the amount being spent by the Health Service Executive on private beds at the UPMC Beacon Hospital, Dublin and UPMC Whitfield Clinic, Waterford over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18366/14]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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241. To ask the Minister for Health if a guarantee on the continuation of the purchase of private beds by the Health Service Executive at the UPMC Beacon Hospital, Dublin and UPMC Whitfield Clinic, Waterford formed part of the negotiations for the sale on the part of the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18367/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 240 and 241 together.

I have no role or function in relation to the National Asset Management Agency. As regards the other detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly.

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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242. To ask the Minister for Health the number of wards and beds that have been closed at Waterford Regional Hospital over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18369/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.