Deputy Martin Browne has called a public meeting for next week to discuss concerns about the future of St Patrick’s Hospital in Cashel. The TD is asking Minister Mary Butler to provide a written account of how the St Patrick’s site was deemed unsuitable for a 60 bed Community Nursing Unit. Deputy Browne says the decision to close St Brigid’s Community Hospital in Carrick on Suir was not supported by the publication of meeting records and engineers reports.
Patients were moved from St Patrick’s during the pandemic into the former Our Lady’s hospital facility – this service is now seeking to renew it’s registration with HIQA as it’s registration expires this year.
Some of the space at St Patricks has been allocated for use by the Children’s Disability Network teams and for administrative purposes. The Cashel based TD says he is wary of the HSE plans to deliver a 60 bed residential unit for older people in Cashel after years of inaction. Minister Butler says the project will go ahead but not at St Patrick’s as the HSE is now reviewing what it calls a more suitable site in the town. The public meeting will be held on May 4th at the Spafield Resource Centre at 7.30pm
