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:

These are two totally separate issues. First, as far as the estates unit is concerned, they are not connected. We were trying to do an assessment to see what we could do with this building and we never got a satisfactory solution. I refer to the footprint of the site in the drawing. We highlighted in red what we felt needed to be put in. The development fits on the site on paper and it shows the minimum area that would be required, but the garden would be lost. In addition, we do not know what type of access would be needed coming around the side. To give the committee an idea of scale, the drawing shows the small site we would be left to work with. We never did a costing for that because we never got to a situation of having a layout we were happy with that would work and meet the standard. That is why there were no costings.

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