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

Mr. Ciar?n Ruane:

We looked at this over a number of years. There are significant challenges. The Deputy has seen the plan in front of him. In some ways, the palliative care and the hospice single rooms on the ground floor show the imbalance of the whole lot. We had 13 patients on the middle floor. To try to correct that was going to be difficult. HIQA correctly pointed out that the spacings of the five-bed unit were way too close. We would have liked to put in an en-suite in there somewhere.

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