Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

There was a two-part plan for St. Camillus's. I was the chief there at the time so I commissioned that plan and the design of it. We built a new 50-bed replacement block, which is the same point I made to Senator Boyle about Donegal. We built a replacement block because we had to. The old workhouse was not going to work for us, HIQA was not going to leave it open and it was hard to expect people to continue to stay in it. The 25 beds constitute the finishing of that replacement that is happening next year. It is state of the art. Then we can move on to additional capacity. I think that site has great potential and great scope for a number of individualised modern-day specialised nursing units. That all has to take its place in the overall plan the Minister must work through under the national development plan. It is a great site and a great service. There are queues of people waiting to get in there. The rehab unit there is fantastic. Adding to those rehab beds is also important for us.

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