Ms Kate Killeen White:

I thank the Deputy for raising the matter, because I wanted to reiterate that. St. Brigid's Hospital has been repurposed. Down through its history, St. Brigid's Hospital has been repurposed a number of times since it originally became operational to it being a dental and maternity unit and then a short-stay hospital. Now it forms part of St. Brigid's Hospital health campus, which is important to say. We have moved so far along with St. Brigid's Hospital as a designated health campus for Carrick-on-Suir, and that is important. In the document provided, I have outlined the staff affiliated with St. Brigid's Hospital, which includes clinical staff right across disciplines, including respiratory, diabetes, administration and dietetics. They work in conjunction with the staff in the primary care centre. A broad range of services are delivered at both the primary care centre and St. Brigid's Hospital campus. The facility is used as an administration base for the staff who provide outreach or domiciliary home care visits or who deliver the clinical services in the primary care centre because that was deemed the most appropriate use of the building.