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Application for new €25m community hospital by end of June

A PLANNING application for the construction of a new €25 million community hospital in Ennis to replace long stay and short stay beds at St Joseph’s will be lodged in the last week in June, the HSE has confirmed. Responding to Clare Champion queries, the HSE has confirmed it also hopes to host a public consultation event about its plans on June 22. There have been a number of false dawns in relation to this planning application, which was was previously supposed to be lodged last December. If given the green light, the 100-bed community nursing unit will be situated on the grounds of a green field 5.09 acre site adjacent to St Flannan’s College. A design team has completed an outline design phase of the project. The unit will include 88 single and four twin rooms, and four palliative care facilities. The project has already been included for funding in the HSE Capital Programme 2021. An allocation of €1.05 …

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