Vol. 567 No. 2
211 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be transferred from the Mater Hospital to Beaumont Hospital for a spinal operation; and the number of people in a similar situation and awaiting transfers from one Dublin hospital to another. [13947/03]
Responsibility for the provision of acute hospital services to residents of County Louth rests with the North Eastern Health Board. Therefore, my Department has asked the chief executive officer of the board to investigate the position in this case and to reply directly to the Deputy.
The information requested by the Deputy on the number of patients awaiting transfer from one Dublin hospital to another is not routinely collected by my Department. My Department has, therefore, asked the regional chief executive of the Eastern Regional Health Authority to collate the information requested and to forward it directly to the Deputy.
