Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has entered into any formal or informal negotiations concerning the sale of buildings at St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42124/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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It is important to note that under the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010, ownership of the land and buildings of St Luke's Hospital, Rathgar, was transferred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) and not to the Minister. My Department has not entered into any negotiations, formal or informal, regarding the sale of the hospital.

As I stated during the Oireachtas debate on the legislation, it was never my intention that the St Luke's site would be sold. Accordingly, the Act provides in Section 6(5) that the HSE shall use the St Luke's property for the purposes of the delivery of health and personal social services and in Section 6(6) that the HSE may not dispose of the property without the consent of the Minister.