Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for his questions. I will come back to him directly on his question about St. Patrick's Hospital, a site which I remember visiting with him quite a period of time ago. My commitment and that of the Department of Health and HSE to continuing the outlined capital development projects for that hospital, the 50-bed unit and the dementia unit, remains intact. Those projects remain in the capital plan and we will deliver them.

St. Brigid's District Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir will return to its previous use and, as the Deputy rightly and fairly said, the timing of that will be in the context of the HSE's view on the Covid situation.

So as not to take up the time of the Deputy's colleagues, I will write to him on the issue of non-Covid care. We are eager to see the resumption of those services.

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