asked the Minister for Health the amount of money spent on improvements to Brownswood Hospital, Enniscorthy, County Wexford during the past three years.
Written Answers. - Brownswood Hospital, Enniscorthy.
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No funds have been made available by my Department in the past three years for improvements at Brownswood Hospital but I understand that a total of £51,260 has been spent by the South-Eastern Health Board on improvements since July 1984.
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asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the decision of the South-Eastern Health Board to lease Brownswood Hospital, Enniscorthy, County Wexford for private use; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that patients admitted under the care of the South-Eastern Health Board have now been privatised; his views on this transfer of patients from the public to the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
I have not, as yet, received any formal request from the South-Eastern Health Board for my statutory consent to the lease of Brownswood Hospital and pending receipt of such request I do not propose to make any statement on the matter.