asked the Minister for Health the total number of dispensaries (a) with waiting rooms and (b) without.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dispensaries: Waiting Room Accommodation
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Detailed descriptions of all dispensary and dispensary depot premises, numbering more than 1,000, are not available in my Department but I understand that it is correct to state that such premises without waiting accommodation would be very much the exception. It will, of course, be appreciated by the Deputy that the nature of the waiting accommodation required in a small depot attended on the occasion of any session by only three or four persons would be substantially less than that required in a busy dispensary catering for larger numbers.
All the 258 premises built with the aid of grants from the Hospitals Trust Fund in the period from May, 1952, were constructed on the basis of standard plans prepared in my Department which made adequate provision for waiting accommodation and it is my policy that such accommodation should be as comfortable as possible.