Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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276. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 402 of 24 April 2018, the number of the 200 additional beds opened in winter 2017-18 that will remain open indefinitely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18869/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Under the Winter Initiative, 208 beds have opened so far this winter at the following sites:

- St Vincent’s Hospital (22 beds);

- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda (29 beds):

- University Hospital Limerick (17 beds);

- University Hospital Galway (28 beds);

- University Hospital Waterford (18);

- Beaumont Hospital Dublin (20);

- St. James' / St Luke's (23);

- The Mater Hospital Dublin (24 beds); and

- Naas Hospital (11);

- Cork University Hospital (2 critical care beds);

- St Luke’s Kilkenny (14).

The HSE has informed my Department that these beds are due to remain open over the course of the full year in 2018, depending on operational requirements.