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Thursday, 9 November 2017

Department of Health

Hospitals Building Programme

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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172. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national forensic mental health service hospital at Portrane, County Dublin; when the construction of the hospital is due for completion; when phase two of the construction will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47448/17]

Photo of Jim DalyJim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Planning permission for a new modern forensic mental health facility in Portrane, to replace the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum together with associated new facilities, was granted in June 2015. Site preparation works were undertaken by the HSE during 2016.

Phase 1 comprises a new 170 single bed National Forensic Mental Service (NFMHS) facility, includes a 130 bed main Hospital as well as a co-located 10 bed Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, and a 30 bed Intensive Care Rehabilitation Unit (ICRU). Construction on Phase I commenced in June 2017, and this is progressing satisfactorily. The new facility will open in 2020, following Equipping and Commissioning.

Phase 2 of the National Forensic Mental Health capital project envisages new regional Intensive Care Rehabilitation Units in the HSE West and HSE South areas. These will be provided over the longer-term, as resource availability allows.

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