Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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608. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the closure of St Luke’s secure unit in Ballinasloe, County Galway, the location to which it is proposed that patients leaving the Central Mental Hospital requiring secure care will be placed; if he is satisfied that the public, patients and staff are safe when placing them in admission units; if he will confirm that in the case of one such male patient who, when placed in the admission unit in Roscommon hospital, absconded due to lack security, refused to return to the unit, and was checked into the local hotel and left unattended overnight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30677/13]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.