Pat Gallagher (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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183. To ask the Minister for Health if he is actively engaged in a process to guarantee the future of Lifford Community Hospital; if proposals are being considered for a replacement facility for the Lifford area in the context of post 2021; if so, the timeframe for such proposals; the details of the extent of proposals being considered for the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47262/18]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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The need for additional beds and the potential to develop a replacement facility to the existing community nursing unit in Lifford will be reviewed further post 2021, when new Census data is available and the Health Service Capacity Review and the National Development Plan have been advanced. The existing unit at Lifford will continue to operate in intervening period. As I advised the Deputy at a meeting on the 7th of November last, I welcome the community continuing to engage with the HSE, as appropriate, over the next while regarding further ideas and proposals for community based options that may be considered.