Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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1351. To ask the Minister for Health if he directed the HSE to temporarily use the new unopened Nenagh Community Nursing Home as a step down facility for acute care based on the overcrowding in UHL; if he was asked by any member of the Houses of the Oireachtas to do the same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14255/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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To reduce delays in patients accessing beds at University Hospital Limerick, the HSE Midwest Regional Executive Officer has proposed to temporarily repurpose the Nenagh Community Nursing Unit as a step-down facility.

This is an interim measure, pending HIQA registration of the facility, the recruitment of staff, and the opening of a new 96 bed block at University Hospital Limerick.

I have approved this plan as part of a suite of measures designed to address the serious and ongoing challenges at University Hospital Limerick.