Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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263. To ask the Minister for Health if he is enhancing and improving community care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14211/16]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Public Nursing Units are an essential part of our national nursing home infrastructure. They provide 5,000 long stay residential care beds i.e. approximately 20% of the total stock of nursing home beds. They also provide about 2,000 short stay beds. €385 million in capital funding has been secured for a programme for the replacement and refurbishment of public nursing homes across the country over the next five years which will consolidate our existing public stock and is expected to provide 250 additional beds.

A full list of facilities which will be replaced or refurbished is available on the Department's website at .