160. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Health the number of intestinal failure syndrome patients who are in the care of the HSE or who were in the care of the HSE at the end of 2016; his views on the incidence and prevalence of intestinal failure syndrome here compared with its incidence and prevalence in other countries in western Europe; his or the HSE's plans for the establishment of a specialist service here; if his Department or the HSE observes potential clinical or logistical and efficiency benefits that would be achieved for persons and for the HSE through the establishment of a tertiary referral centre for persons who develop severe intestinal failure and a single specialist unit to manage adult intestinal failure patients who receive out-of-hospital parenteral nutrition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44365/17]

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160. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Health the number of intestinal failure syndrome patients who are in the care of the HSE or who were in the care of the HSE at the end of 2016; his views on the incidence and prevalence of intestinal failure syndrome here compared with its incidence and prevalence in other countries in western Europe; his or the HSE's plans for the establishment of a specialist service here; if his Department or the HSE observes potential clinical or logistical and efficiency benefits that would be achieved for persons and for the HSE through the establishment of a tertiary referral centre for persons who develop severe intestinal failure and a single specialist unit to manage adult intestinal failure patients who receive out-of-hospital parenteral nutrition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44365/17]

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