434. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which an ambulance has been called to the acute mental health unit on the grounds of Cork University Hospital to transfer a patient to the emergency department in CUH from the date of opening of the unit to the present day, by date, in tabular form; the response time in each case in addition to the base from which the ambulance travelled to carry out the transfer; if there are any long-term plans to avoid tying up ambulances for the transfer of patients across the campus; if the matter of the way patients are transferred from the acute mental health unit to the emergency department at CUH was discussed when the unit was being designed and before the unit opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2674/17]

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434. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of occasions on which an ambulance has been called to the acute mental health unit on the grounds of Cork University Hospital to transfer a patient to the emergency department in CUH from the date of opening of the unit to the present day, by date, in tabular form; the response time in each case in addition to the base from which the ambulance travelled to carry out the transfer; if there are any long-term plans to avoid tying up ambulances for the transfer of patients across the campus; if the matter of the way patients are transferred from the acute mental health unit to the emergency department at CUH was discussed when the unit was being designed and before the unit opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2674/17]

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