Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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718. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new acute beds that have been provided to Portiuncula Hospital in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59044/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Saolta Hospital Group advise that no new acute beds were provided to Portiuncula University Hospital in the past two years. However, the design of a 12 bedded isolation ward in a vacated area of the hospital is progressing, and it is expected that this work will be completed in 2022.  

In addition, a new ward block development will provide a 50-bed replacement ward. Tenders are due in for this work in December, with the intention of awarding a contract early in  2022.