Noel McCarthy (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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107. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of the new community nursing unit at Midleton Community Hospital, Midleton, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52008/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I would like to thank the Deputy for this question on the Midleton Community Hospital.

In 2016 a Capital Programme for Older Persons Residential Centres was developed in response to the introduction of HIQA’s National Residential Care Standards for Older People and the requirement that all facilities providing long stay beds be registered by HIQA. This is a programme to replace, upgrade and refurbish Community Nursing Units (CNUs),

As part of this programme 7 CNUs are to be delivered through Public Private Partnership (PPP). These include Ardee, Athlone, Clonmel, Killarney, St Finbarr’s, Cork, Thomastown and of course Midleton.

The Midleton CNU will consist of two 25 bed ‘Residential Households’.

The ‘Household Model’ is intended to create a person-centred approach which focusses on the quality of life, which supports autonomy and the opportunity to continue to direct their own lives in accordance with their cognitive and physical abilities.

There have been delays in completion of the overall CNU PPP programme and all parties are engaging to address the outstanding items.

The HSE is actively engaging with PPP company to achieve completion of the Midleton Community Nursing Unit before year end. The building will then be made available to the service for equipping, commissioning and Health Information & Quality Authority (HIQA) registration prior to welcoming patients into the new facility.