Michael Smith
Ceist:84 Mr. M. Smith asked the Minister for Health when the psychiatric unit at Nenagh General Hospital, County Tipperary, will commence; and the amount of funds provided in 1997's Estimate for this project. [12493/97]
Written Answers. - Hospital Services.
Limerick East): The provision of a new acute phychiatric unit at Nenagh General Hospital is an an early stage of planning. The question of proceeding to further stages of planning is being considered in the light of the resources available for health capital programme developments in the current and subsequent years.
Michael Smith
Ceist:85 Mr. M. Smith asked the Minister for Health when the new geriatric unit at the Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, County Tipperary, will commence; and the amount of funds which are being provided in 1997's Estimate for this project. [12494/97]
Limerick East): The provision of long-stay unit in Thurles, County Tipperary is, in the first instance, a matter for the Mid-Western Health Board.
I am making a grant of £100,000 available to the Mid-Western Health Board in 1997 to enable the board to proceed with the early planning stages of the development.