asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whether he has received a resolution from the Tipperary Urban Council protesting against his delay in sanctioning plans for the extension and improvement of Tipperary District Hospital and calling on him to take immediate steps to have the work carried out; whether his attention has been directed to the report of the county medical officer of health, concerning the condition of the existing institution; whether he is aware that the present maternity ward, containing seven beds, is situated on the ground floor of the Fever Hospital, where operations are performed in the presence of patients; and whether he is in a position to state if the work of reconstruction decided upon by the local authority will be sanctioned in the immediate future.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Tipperary District Hospital.
The answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. I am not aware that the present maternity ward is situated on the ground floor of the Fever Hospital. On the 29th April, 1936, the local authority was directed to discontinue the Fever Hospital at Tipperary as such, and to arrange for the treatment of all fever cases in the Fever Hospital at Clonmel. It is not proposed to sanction the reconstruction proposals of the local authority for Tipperary Hospital.