My question is for the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. I want to raise my concerns about the future of St. Patrick's Hospital in Cashel and the services currently operating out of there. We submitted parliamentary questions on numerous occasions and were told money had been ring-fenced for the hospital but now, after four years, some bright engineer has decided it is not big enough for the 60-bed unit. It looks as though the Government is telling us to look elsewhere and not to worry about St. Patrick's Hospital, but we have seen this before and had a similar response in regard to St. Brigid's hospital in Carrick-on-Suir. It is being closed by stealth.

I want the Minister of State to produce minutes of a meeting to show why the St. Patrick's site is not good enough for the 60-bed unit for which the money was ring-fenced. We asked about engineers’ reports for St. Brigid's hospital, the Owenacurra Centre and Clifden hospital, but there do not seem to be any. If engineers are taking four years to decide a site is not big enough, I think it is time the Government changed its engineers. Any smart engineer, having looked a site, will be able straightaway to tell you whether it is big enough. Will the Minister of State produce minutes of the meeting at which a decision was taken that the St. Patrick's site is not big enough, and an engineer's report to that effect?

As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, in early 2016, a capital programme for older persons' residential centres was developed by the Government to replace, upgrade and refurbish care facilities at approximately 90 locations throughout the country, and this is happening all over the length and breadth of the country. The Deputy will be aware that one is under way in Clonmel, with a new community nursing unit-----

We welcome it.

-----comprising 60 beds, and also a crisis home for mental health patients with another ten-bed unit-----

Cashel will be moving to Clonmel. Good woman.

If the Deputy will please allow me to answer, he referred to the unit in St. Brigid's hospital in Carrick-on-Suir having closed but he forgot to mention that 24 people are now delivering services in St. Brigid's.

The beds are gone, so.

Deputy, please.

In regard to what the Deputy raised, I think he is missing the point. Under the capital plan, a new community nursing unit, CNU, is going to be built in Cashel. If HSE estates decide the current site that was recently identified is no longer suitable, that is completely within its remit. I cannot discuss any new site at the moment because it is commercially sensitive-----

Because there is none there.

-----but to reassure the Deputy, a new community nursing unit with 60 beds is being developed for Cashel, County Tipperary.