Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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518. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the pending sale of a nursing home (details supplied) to a for-profit private care provider, the efforts his Department, the older persons’ portfolio, and their Ministers, make to secure the facility as a high-quality, State-run public facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39055/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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519. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the lack of publicly funded older persons’ beds, the measures he has taken in his tenure as a Minister to ensure that private homes in crisis going for sale are secured by the State, in order that residents are not paying the price for State policy failures. [39056/24]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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520. To ask the Minister for Health to provide copies of all correspondence from his office to show the actions that were taken to secure a nursing home (details supplied) as a State-run facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39057/24]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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521. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given the high death toll in nursing homes (details supplied), the steps he has taken by way of research to investigate the impact of transfer trauma on residents in these facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39058/24]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.