Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Riverstick nursing home is now taking patients from both Mercy hospital and CUH. That is helping. The clinicians in CUH are certainly saying it has been a great help. More needs to be done. If there are integration issues between acute and community facilities, I will take that up with the new chief executive. It is not something we can have. Obviously, one of the reasons we are moving to the regions is to have that more seamless and integrated care. However, if there are difficulties in that relationship or in the movement of patients who should be transitioned out of the hospitals, I will certainly take that up with the chief executive.