Written answers
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Department of Health and Children
Departmental Properties
11:00 pm
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ionad Folláin, Myshall, County Carlow, which was bought by the Office of Public Works a few years ago and handed over to the Health Service Executive, is due to be sold; the amount that was spent purchasing the property and insuring, securing and maintaining the property; if her attention has been further been drawn to the fact that the property will now be sold for a fraction of the total spent on it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10258/07]
Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)
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As the Deputy is aware the property at Myshall, Co. Carlow was purchased by the OPW on behalf of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to accommodate asylum seekers. However, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform decided against using the property for that purpose. Subsequently, the property was gifted by the OPW to the Department of Health and Children who in turn transferred ownership of the property to the former South Eastern Health Board in whose area the property is located.
The responsibility for the provision of security at Myshall rested with my Department from September 2002 to December, 2002. During that period the total cost of the security to my Department was â¬18,606.36. Since January, 2003, it has been the responsibility of the Health Service Executive South Eastern Area (formally the South Eastern Health Board).
Under the Health Act, 2004, it is the Health Service Executive which is responsible for the acquisition and disposal of property under its remit.
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