Written answers

Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Department of Health and Children

Departmental Correspondence

9:00 pm

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of requests she has received, inside or outside of Dáil Éireann to have the Grove Hospital, Tuam re-opened. [43930/08]

Photo of Máire HoctorMáire Hoctor (Tipperary North, Fianna Fail)
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I fully appreciate the concerns expressed to me to develop health facilities on this site. However, as I indicated to the Deputy in my reply to his Parliamentary Question of 18 November last, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is the appropriate statutory body to consider in the first instance any proposals in this regard. I understand that the Executive subsequently wrote to the Deputy following my reply of 18 November outlining its position to develop a Health Campus at this location in Tuam.

The question of developing modern, high quality health infrastructure on this site has been brought to my attention in many guises in recent times, both inside and outside the Dail. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of proposed service developments at the site, my Department is regularly kept aware of this issue by the HSE. In this context, it is not feasible to specify, in my capacity as Minister, the number of requests, whether oral or written, I have received on this matter over an unspecified period of time.

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