Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive
9:30 am
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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Mr. Gloster will see my questions coming from a mile away because I have asked them twice this week. When will the 96-bed block be opened? Through accident or misspeaking, as he said yesterday, I take Mr. Gloster at his word. I see it. I have been inside in UHL for more than a month. I have actually seen floors go up since I was in there. They are flying it and I accept that. What date and what month will the block be opened? Broadly speaking I am not going to, to use Mr. Gloster's phrase, hang him on it.
Second, I presume, and it is one thing on which I fundamentally disagree with Mr. Gloster, the famous nursing home in Nenagh, for which I fought very hard, will be opened in correlation with that. I think that the REO has committed to that.