Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am familiar with this situation. The Dean Maxwell Community Nursing Unit is another place in County Tipperary, like St. Brigid's in Carrick-on-Suir, that is being closed down without any consideration for the elderly people there. As one of the responses indicates, the HSE has advised that the potential acquisition of the Mount Carmel nursing home site in Roscrea is being considered in this context. We are also told older person services in north Tipperary will also be enhanced by the new state-of-the-art 50-bed community nursing unit in Nenagh that will open in due course. As we have just heard during the public meeting, this 50-bed unit is being taken over as step-down facility for University Hospital Limerick. The Dean Maxwell unit is gone again from the hands of the people in Roscrea. We had heard about Mount Carmel, but this seems to have gone off their radar. We will go with the recommendations and we will get information back from the petitioner. We will see where we go from there at a future meeting. Is that agreed?