Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

In 2010, the HSE will dispose of surplus assets and reinvest the initial sum of €50 million. The HSE has already identified properties and has already received €15 million. It is in the process of selling other lands which will realise €50 million this year. The mental health capital programme will provide a range of facilities throughout the entire spectrum of mental health care facilities, including acute psychiatric units, day hospitals, community nursing units and high-support hostels, which will provide the infrastructure necessary to enable its modernisation into a patient-centred flexible community-based mental health service. The acute unit at Beaumont is prioritised as one of the projects to be funded in 2010. Acute admissions will be moved from St. Ita's to a new unit at Beaumont.

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