Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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768. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of a frailty intervention therapy team and additional telemetry units in St. James’s Hospital emergency department. [54827/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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769. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the commissioning of a MRI unit at Tullamore hospital. [54828/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional staff recruited for the phased increase in radiation oncology services at St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar. [54829/17]

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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771. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commissioning of new linear accelerators at St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, during 2017; and the number now in place. [54830/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 770 and 771 together.

Two new linear accelerators were installed in St. Luke’s Hospital in order to provide additional capacity to meet increasing demand. Clinical commissioning of these linear accelerators is now complete. There are now a total of four linear accelerators at St Luke’s Hospital and 14 linear accelerators in total in Dublin.

A total of 24.5 posts have been allocated relating to these new linear accelerators.