Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

It is important to welcome what the Minister of State has said but to add that it does not arise from a recognition on the part of the Department, Minister, her colleagues or the HSE that the proposition to site at Thornton Hall was wrong in the first instance. It is a quirk of fate. Welcome though it is, it is important to recognise that is the case. Question No. 30 asks the Minister her "plans to relocate the Central Mental Hospital to an existing psychiatric institution (details supplied)". At no time in the Minister of State's comments or Deputy Reilly's remarks were these details supplied. Can the Minister of State share with the House the site-specific existing psychiatric institution to which the question refers?

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