Dáil Éireann - Volume 527 - 05 December, 2000

Written Answers. - Hospital Services.

[700] 238. Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals, and the number of beds involved, where the practice of placing elderly male and female patients in the same ward takes place. [28393/00]

Minister for Health and Children (Mr. Martin): The information requested by the Deputy is not readily available in my Department. Accordingly, I have asked the chief executive officers of the health boards-authority to compile the information requested and respond directly to the Deputy as a matter of urgency.