Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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220. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to expand the renal unit in Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo in view of the number of persons placed on the waiting list for treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54806/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Currently there are no formal plans to extend the Renal Unit in Mayo University Hospital.  However, the need for additional renal beds has been identified and will be incorporated into the site’s Development Control Plan which has been funded to progress in 2022.

The Renal Dialysis Unit was last upgraded at the end of 2013, increasing capacity from 11 to 15 beds. There is particularly high demand for renal services in Mayo and the hospital is working with the Saolta Group Medical Directorate to progress home therapies that will also assist in addressing this demand.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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221. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 12 October 2021, the location at which the 1,146 acute beds announced in budget 2021 have been or will be opened in 2021; the number at each location; the number opened in existing spaces; the number previously funded under one-off funding such as, but not limited to, the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and the number opened in new spaces, that is, new build by type of unit, for example, single occupancy, in tabular form. [54852/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.