Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
In response to Deputy Hourigan, we have just brought up a figure regarding the most recent community nursing unit. It was a 60-bed facility and the construction-only cost, excluding VAT, was €24.5 million, which is about half a million euro per bed or thereabouts.
To the Senator on Vision Ireland, yes it corresponded with me again recently. I believe I am due to meet them or talk to them shortly. I did commit to supporting that last year and to extending it this year. I am committed to that regardless and having gone on the public record with that, I would be a foolish man to try to take it back off. I will be opting for that extra WTE that the organisation needs this year to do that. It is phenomenal value for money and I have no issue with that. On the psychology services question, I might ask Ms Killeen White to pick up on that.