Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive
Ms Kate Killeen White:
I appreciate the Deputy's question. They are different premises and services and we have to comply with the Safer Better Healthcare guidelines that apply to community designated centres including the likes of St. Brigid's. I appreciate what she is saying about trolleys but, as I say, people would have access to St. Brigid's for short stays so they would have stayed a number of nights in the premises and would have accessed it for respite services. That is the difference. St. Brigid's operated a different service.
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