Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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153. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address infrastructural and equipment issues in relation to the provision of thrombectomy services in Beaumont Hospital; the level of capital expenditure required to replace the existing angiography suite and to open a second angiography suite; if this is being provided for in the HSE national services plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51274/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Provision of emergency endovascular thrombectomy is highly specialised and the current and agreed clinical strategy of the national stroke programme is to fully commission the two existing services in Beaumont Hospital and Cork University Hospital on a sustainable 24/7 level of service provision. The HSE have advised that the number of patients undergoing this procedure has risen, on average, 50% each year.

The HSE advise that capital expenditure will be required to replace the existing angiography suite and to open a second angiography suite. Future investment in these services will be considered within the overall acute hospital infrastructure programme, the prioritised needs of the hospital groups and in the most cost effective way possible to meet current and future needs of the health service.

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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155. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the geographical gap in heart failure services in the south southwest hospital group area; if a business case has been made for the €750,000 investment that is needed to establish heart failure services in Cork University Hospital and Kerry General Hospital; if this will be provided for as a priority in the HSE service plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51276/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.