488 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that on 2 November 2007 there were 120 elderly people awaiting a long term care bed in public nursing homes in Kildare West/Wicklow, and that 71 of these people who are deemed to require long term care are actually living in the community without adequate professional support which is required for any person deemed to require a long term care bed; and if, in view of this situation she will sanction the provision of additional community care units in County Kildare similar to the facility located at the Harbour Leinster Street Maynooth County Kildare. [2505/08]

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488 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that on 2 November 2007 there were 120 elderly people awaiting a long term care bed in public nursing homes in Kildare West/Wicklow, and that 71 of these people who are deemed to require long term care are actually living in the community without adequate professional support which is required for any person deemed to require a long term care bed; and if, in view of this situation she will sanction the provision of additional community care units in County Kildare similar to the facility located at the Harbour Leinster Street Maynooth County Kildare. [2505/08]

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1. 30 January 2008

   Nursing Home Accommodation.

   488 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that on 2 November 2007 there were 120 elderly people awaiting a long term care bed in public nursing homes in Kildare West/Wicklow, and that 71 of these people who are deemed to require long term care are actually living in the community without adequate professional support which is required for any person deemed to require a long term care bed; and if, in view of this situation she will sanction the provision of additional community care units in County Kildare similar to the facility located at the Harbour Leinster Street Maynooth County Kildare. [2505/08]

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