St Brigid’s Hospital beds
Denis Naughten questions the removal of beds from St Brigid’s Hospital in Ballinasloe despite its planned future psychiatric use. The Taoiseach says they have apparently been restored and that officials will meet the Minister of State.
With regard to No. 98, the licensing of healthcare facilities Bill, I raised the issue of St. Brigid's Hospital with the Taoiseach yesterday. We are told that the new €3.1 million facility in Ballinasloe, when it is decommissioned as an acute psychiatric unit, will in future be used for psychiatry of later life. In light of its future use, why were the beds taken out last night?
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The Deputy must table a parliamentary question to get a reply to that. The Deputy knows that.
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How can we believe the HSE when it is removing the beds-----
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-----that are supposed to used for services there in the future? What is happening?
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I understand they have been put back. If they were not going to be used for particular patients, the beds should not have been taken out in the first place. I also understand that a number of people are meeting the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, about this matter tomorrow.