The HSE has confirmed to Deputy Ged Nash that the redevelopment of St. Mary’s and Boyne View House into a to 60-bed nursing home will be completed by the end of this year and that work on the redeveloped Community Nursing Unit at St. Joseph’s, Ardee will commence this autumn.
“The people of Drogheda will remember when the very future of publicly-run nursing homes was being called into question” Deputy Nash said.
“In early 2016 when I served in government, I secured €10million in the HSE’s 2016-2022 capital programme to have Boyne View House and St. Mary’s modernised.
“When completed these facilities will be secured for the future and will continue to provide the highest standard of nursing home residential care and in the case of Boyne View House first-class care for citizens with dementia and Alzheimer’s.
“This is great news for the town and the region generally.”
Work on new 50-bed unit at St. Joseph’s to start this year
The HSE has also confirmed to Deputy Nash that construction work on the redeveloped Community Nursing Unit at St. Joseph’s, Ardee will commence this autumn.
“In the early part of the last decade when the country was in financial and economic ruin, I made sure that instead of seeing facilities like St. Joseph’s close, these important community assets would be modernised and redeveloped to serve the Mid-Louth community.
“As part of the 2015-2022 HSE capital investment programme I secured the resources to make good on that commitment.
“This money was nailed down in the plan in January 2016 and it is difficult to comprehend how it has taken so long for the last and current government to get this project to this stage.
“In any case it is good news that the HSE has confirmed to me that the building is expected to start in the third-quarter of this year as part of a €200 million bundle of seven community nursing units across the State.
“This now means that the commitment I made in 2015 and 2016 is now finally being delivered and that the future provision of publicly-run elder care in Ardee and Mid-Louth is secure.”
