Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 March 2019
28. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of the regional hospital for the north east in Navan, County Meath; and if he has received written correspondence from his ministerial colleagues seeking its advancement and development in the past three years. [12405/19]
View answer38. Deputy Shane Cassells asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of the regional hospital for the north east; and if he has received correspondence from his ministerial colleagues seeking its advancement in the past three years. [12404/19]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 28 and 38 together.
There are currently no plans to construct a regional hospital for the north east in Navan. The proposal that a regional hospital be developed in Navan originated in a report prepared for the HSE in 2008. This proposal was superseded by the Government's decision, in 2013, to re-organise acute hospitals into Hospital Groups.
Our Lady’s Hospital Navan is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group. Every hospital in that Group, large and small, has a vital role to play within the Group, with smaller hospitals managing routine, urgent or planned care locally and more complex care managed in the larger hospitals.
Currently, the Hospital Group is engaged in a programme of re-design work to further integrate and enhance the role of Navan Hospital within the Group and to ensure that it will provide more services safely and appropriately. It is intended that the Hospital Group will continue to engage closely with all interested parties to ensure that the needs of patients, staff, the local and wider community are addressed.
I am in regular contact with my Ministerial colleagues with regard to Navan Hospital.
