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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 24 Mar 1987

Vol. 371 No. 2

Written Answers. - Dublin Hospital Services.

177.

asked the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with regard to the future of the Royal Hospital, Baggot Street, Dublin 2, if he will give an assurance that in view of the continued needs for health care in the area, this hospital will not now be closed; and if he will undertake to make the necessary financial provisions to ensure that the hospital remains open.

In accordance with the overall plan for the future provision of hospital services in Dublin, the population now served by the Royal City of Dublin Hospital will be catered for by St. James's Hospital, when the present phase of building is completed, around the end of 1989. I cannot give the Deputy the assurance which he seeks, having regard to the urgent need to rationalise the provision of acute hospital services and contain expenditure on these services.

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