HSE hopes to progress sale of Crooksling ‘in very near future’
By Aideen O'Flaherty
THE HSE hopes to progress the sale of the former site of St Brigid’s Nursing Home in Crooksling, Brittas, “in the very near future”.
Last December, plans for the sale of the site were temporarily halted by Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, so he could carry out a review.
The former site of St Brigid’s Nursing Home in Crooksling
As reported in The Echo last June, the HSE’s Estate Management department were waiting for internal permission to put the nursing home and the surrounding grounds on the market, after the nursing home had shut and the residents had been moved.
St Brigid’s closed in late March 2020, and the majority of the residents were transferred to the new Tymon North Community Nursing Home in Tallaght.
The HSE’s plans for the sale of the Crooksling site, which was developed in the early 1900s after it was donated to the community to serve as a sanatorium for people with tuberculosis, and later became a nursing home, were met with frustration in the local area.
Cllr Deirdre O’Donovan, who is on the Mid-Leinster Regional Health Forum, had called for the site to be retained by the HSE and to be transformed into “a centre of excellence” for care of the elderly, and to follow a retirement village model, as opposed to a nursing home facility development.
The HSE confirmed at a meeting of the Mid-Leinster Regional Health Forum on Monday that “a delayed disposal of the property” is still the case.
The HSE stated: “The HSE temporarily delayed the disposal of the Crooksling property at the end of 2020 following a request from the Minister of Health.
“A delayed disposal is still the case, albeit the HSE hopes to progress the sale of this property in the very near future.”
The land at Crooksling was originally scheduled to go on the market in the first quarter of 2021.
The HSE previously stated that St Brigid’s Nursing Home, Crooksling, had to close because it did not “meet the National Quality Standards for Residential Care Settings for Older People in Ireland”.
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