Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
As I said last week, when I was with the committee last year, we were talking about getting beds in Mallow open. The Deputy rightly put the challenge to me that there was shell and core available in Mallow that was not used. I went down to see it. With the support of the Minister and the Department, those 24 beds are now being fitted out. For any option that the region pursues, including levels of rehabilitation, whether at St. Finbarr's or elsewhere, we will support that. Right now, today, I do not have the detail of a dedicated plan for a rehab centre in Cork that is the equivalent of Dún Laoghaire.
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