Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The people of Cashel lost their medical services in Our Lady's to Clonmel back in the 1980s. They have been waiting and waiting for a new 60-bed community unit in Cashel. We expected it to be started at this stage, but, hey presto, the authorities decided the site was not big enough at St. Patrick's Hospital. We all believed it was. Now the authorities are supposed to be searching for a new site. Where are the plans and at what stage is the new community nursing home for Cashel? Cashel and south Tipperary, and indeed parts of west Waterford, deserve a proper community nursing home for their elderly and infirm.

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