Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept that "rejected" is probably the wrong word.

They have been told the unit is not fit-for-purpose anymore. I do not want my parents or other people having to walk on unsafe floorboards in a nursing home. I want them to have toilets in their room and visitors not having to sit on beds. If hoists have to be used for elderly people, I do not want lockers and so on to have to be moved out of people's way. It is nonsensical that a purpose-built unit for 20 patients and others on the waiting list has been taken away.

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