Hospitals
HEALTH ACT, 1953.
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE HEALTH ACT, 1947 , AND CERTAIN OTHER ENACTMENTS. [29th October, 1953.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—
PART I.
Preliminary and General.
Short title and collective citation.
1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Health Act, 1953.
(2) The Principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Health Acts, 1947 and 1953.
Commencement.
2.—Save as otherwise specifically provided thereby, this Act shall come into operation on such day or days as, by order or orders made by the Minister under this section, may be fixed therefor either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so fixed for different purposes and different provisions.
Principal Act and construction of that Act and this Act.
3.—(1) In this Act “the Principal Act” means the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947).
(2) The Principal Act and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2) of this section, a reference in the Principal Act to that Act shall, save where the context otherwise requires, be construed as including a reference to this Act.
General saver.
4.—(1) Nothing in this Act or any instrument thereunder shall be construed as imposing an obligation on any person to avail himself or any service provided under this Act or to submit himself or any person for whom he is responsible to health examination or treatment.
(2) Any person who avails himself of any service provided under this Act shall not be under any obligation to submit himself or any person for whom he is responsible to a health examination or treatment which is contrary to the teaching of his religion.
Repeals.
5.—The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that Schedule.
Conduct and management of health institution.
8.—(1) The Minister may make regulations, applicable to every health institution, every health institution of a particular class or a particular health institution, for the conduct and management of such institutions or institution.
(2) A health authority may, with the consent of the Minister, make rules for the conduct and management of a health institution maintained by them, for the regulation of persons admitted to the institution or attending there and for the regulation of admissions to the institution (including admissions on special terms as to payment and accommodation).
(3) Regulations made under section 34 of the Public Assistance Act, 1939 (No. 27 of 1939), and in force immediately before the commencement of this section shall be deemed to be regulations made under this section.
(4) Rules made or deemed to be made under section 18 of the Principal Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this section shall be deemed to be rules made under this section.
Direction with respect to institutional services.
9.—The Minister may, by order made in respect of a specified health institution, direct—
(a) that institutional services shall be given in the institution to persons of a class specified by reference to their condition of health, or
(b) that institutional services shall not be given in the institution to persons of a class specified by reference to their condition of health,
and the health authority maintaining the institution shall comply with the direction.
Extern institutions.
10.—(1) A health authority may, with the consent of the Minister, make and carry out an arrangement for the giving of institutional services to any person or to persons of any class, being a person or persons who is or are entitled to receive institutional services from such authority otherwise than under section 26 of this Act, in an institution not managed by such authority or another health authority.
(2) Payments shall be made by the health authority for institutional services provided pursuant to an arrangement under subsection (1) of this section and the payments shall be in accordance with such scale as may be approved of or directed by the Minister.
(3) Two health authorities may make and carry out any arrangement for the giving of institutional services by one of them on behalf of and at the cost of the other.
(4) Any arrangement which was in force immediately before the commencement of this section and which could be made upon such commencement under this section shall be deemed to be an arrangement made under this section.
Transfer of officers on discontinuation of health institution.
11.—(1) Where a health institution is discontinued under subsection (1) or an order under subsection (2) of section 11 of the Principal Act and—
(a) a person who held an office under a health authority in the discontinued institution is offered a similar office in another health institution managed by that health authority or by a joint board some of whose members are appointed by that health authority, or
(b) a person who held an office under a joint board in the discontinued institution is offered a similar office in another health institution managed by that joint board or by one of the health authorities who appointed the members of that joint board,
the office held by the person in the discontinued institution shall, for the purposes of any enactment relating to superannuation, be deemed not to have been abolished.
(2) An officer aggrieved by an offer under section (1) of this section may appeal to the Minister in writing and the Minister may either refuse the appeal or give such direction (which shall be complied with by the health authority or joint board) as he considers just.
Religious Services.
12.—(1) A health authority shall make arrangements with the appropriate authorities for the due performance of religious services in each hospital, sanatorium, county home, home for persons suffering from physical or mental disability, maternity home, convalescent home and preventorium maintained by them.
(2) The amount of any payment made to a person by a health authority pursuant to this section shall be subject to the approval of the Minister.
Exemption from local inquiry.
13.—The holding of a local inquiry shall not be necessary in the case of an order under subsection (2) of section 10 or subsection (2) of section 11 of the Principal Act where the order relates to a dispensary, clinic, health centre, first-aid station or any similar institution.
HEALTH ACT 1970
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2024
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE HEALTH ACTS, 1947 TO 1966, AND CERTAIN OTHER ENACTMENTS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BODIES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [24th February, 1970.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
PART I
Preliminary and General
Section 1
Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement.
1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Health Act, 1970.
(2) The Health Acts, 1947 to 1966, and this Act may be cited together as the Health Acts, 1947 to 1970.
(3) The Health Acts, 1947 to 1966, and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.
(4) Save as otherwise specifically provided for, this Act shall come into operation on such day or days as, by order or orders made by the Minister under this section, may be fixed therefor either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision, and different days may be so fixed for different purposes and different provisions.
Section 2
Interpretation.
2.—(1) In this Act a reference to a Part, section or schedule is to a Part, section or schedule of this Act, unless it is indicated that reference to some other enactment is intended.
(2) In this Act a reference to a subsection, paragraph, subparagraph or rule is to the subsection, paragraph, subparagraph or rule of the provision in which the reference occurs, unless it is indicated that reference to some other provision is intended.
(3) A reference in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended or extended by any subsequent enactment.
Section 3
Repeals.
3.—The enactments specified in column (2) of the First Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column (3) of the Schedule.
PART III
Hospitals, etc.
Section 38
Provision and maintenance of hospitals, etc.
38.—(1) A health board may, with the consent of the Minister, provide and maintain any hospital, sanatorium, home, laboratory, clinic, health centre or similar premises required for the provision of services under the Health Acts, 1947 to 1970.
(2) The Minister may give to a health board such direction as he thinks fit in relation to the provision or maintenance of any premises provided and maintained under subsection (1) and in relation to the arrangements for providing services therein, and the health board shall comply with any such direction.
(3) A health board may and, if directed by the Minister, shall discontinue the provision and maintenance of any premises provided and maintained by it under subsection (1).
(4) A health board shall not exercise its powers under subsection (3) in relation to the discontinuance of the provision and maintenance of a hospital, sanatorium or home save with the consent of the Minister.
(5) The Minister shall not give a direction under subsection (3) in relation to the discontinuance of the provision and maintenance of a hospital, sanatorium or home save after having caused a local inquiry to be held into the desirability of the discontinuance.
(6) Where, on a discontinuance under subsection (3), a person who held an office under the health board in the premises affected is offered a similar office by the board, the first-mentioned office shall, for the purposes of the superannuation of the person, be deemed not to have been abolished.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C3
References to “health board” construed as references to Health Service Executive (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 56(a), 66, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Definitions (Part 10).
56.—In this Part “specified body” means—
(a) the health boards,
…
References to specified bodies.
66.—Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a specified body in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, are to be read as references to the Executive, unless the context otherwise requires.
Editorial Notes:
E134
Previous affecting provision: functions under section declared reserved functions (6.11.1996) by Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act 1996 (32/1996), s. 3(1)(a) and sch. 1, commenced on enactment; s. 3 repealed (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 73(1) and sch. 4, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Section 39
Religious services.
39.—(1) A health board shall make arrangements with the appropriate authorities for the performance of religious services in each hospital, sanatorium and home maintained by it.
(2) The amount of any payment made to a person by a health board under an arrangement under this section shall be subject to the approval of the Minister.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C4
References to “health board” construed as references to Health Service Executive (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 56(a), 66, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Definitions (Part 10).
56.—In this Part “specified body” means—
(a) the health boards,
…
References to specified bodies.
66.—Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a specified body in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, are to be read as references to the Executive, unless the context otherwise requires.
Section 40
Acquisition of land for voluntary bodies.
F44[40.—(1) A health board may, on the request of a body which provides or proposes to provide institutional services or any other service similar or ancillary to a service which the health board may provide, and subject to any general directions given by the Minister, provide for the body any land which is shown by the body, to the satisfaction of the health board, to be required for the efficient performance of the functions of the body.]
F44[(2) Where a health board decides to provide land under this section for a body, it may acquire the land either by agreement, subject to any general directions given by the Minister, or compulsorily under Part VIII of the Health Act, 1947, and may lease such land to or for the benefit of the body.]
(3) Where a health board is requested by a body to provide under this section any land for the body, the board may, as a condition precedent to its so providing the land, require the body to undertake to defray the whole or part of the cost of so providing the land.
Annotations
Amendments:
F44
Substituted (6.11.1996) by Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act 1996 (32/1996, s. 17(e), (f), commenced on enactment.
Modifications (not altering text):
C5
References to “health board” construed as references to Health Service Executive (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 56(a), 66, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Definitions (Part 10).
56.—In this Part “specified body” means—
(a) the health boards,
…
References to specified bodies.
66.—Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a specified body in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, are to be read as references to the Executive, unless the context otherwise requires.
Editorial Notes:
E135
Previous affecting provision: functions under section declared reserved functions (6.11.1996) by Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act 1996 (32/1996), s. 3(1)(a) and sch. 1, commenced on enactment; s. 3 repealed (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 73(1) and sch. 4, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Section 41
Bodies for co-ordination and development of hospital services.
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Annotations
Amendments:
F45
Repealed (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 73(1) and sch. 4, S.I. No. 887 of 2004, subject to transitional provisions in s. 74 and sch. 5.
F46
Repealed (6.11.1996) by Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Act 1996 (32/1996), s. 23(1) and sch. 2 part 1, commenced on enactment.
Editorial Notes:
E136
Previous affecting provision: functions under subs. (1)(b)(i), (ii) transferred from Comhairle na nOspidéal to HSE and duty to consult with colleges transferred (1.01.2005, establishment day) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 57, S.I. No. 885 of 2004; section repealed as per F-notes above.
E137
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (11.12.1978) by Health (Hospital Bodies) Regulations, 1972, (Amendment) Regulations 1978 (S.I. No. 338 of 1978), in effect as per reg. 2; section repealed as per F-notes above.
E138
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (1.07.1972) by Health (Hospital Bodies) Regulations 1972 (S.I. No. 164 of 1972), in effect as per reg. 2; section repealed as per F-notes above.
Section 42
Dissolution of Hospitals Commission.
42.—F47[…]
Annotations
Amendments:
F47
Repealed (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), s. 73(1) and sch. 4, S.I. No. 887 of 2004, subject to transitional provisions in s. 74 and sch. 5.
Editorial Notes:
E139
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (1.04.1976) by Hospitals Commission (Dissolution) Order 1976 (S.I. No. 79 of 1976), in effect as per art. 2; section repealed as per F-note above.
Section 43
Amendment of Public Hospitals Act, 1933.
43.—(1) The definition of “hospital” in section 1 of the Act of 1933 is hereby amended by the insertion of “or for providing services for hospitals” after “medical research”.
(2) Section 14 (5) of the Act of 1933, in its operation in relation to appointments made between the commencement of this section and the commencement of section 42, shall be construed as if “such period as may be specified by the Minister” were substituted for “two years”.
(3) In this section “the Act of 1933” means the Public Hospitals Act, 1933.
Section 44
Administration of Central Mental Hospital.
44.—(1) The Minister may, by order made with the consent of the Minister for Finance, arrange for the transfer of the administration of the Central Mental Hospital to the health board (in this section referred to as the relevant health board) the functional area of which includes the county of Dublin.
(2) Where an order has been made under this section—
(a) the Central Mental Hospital shall be administered by the relevant health board and its officers and servants, as if it were a hospital maintained by the board under section 38 and
(b) a reference in any enactment to the resident governor and physician of the Central Mental Hospital shall be construed as a reference to the officer of the relevant health board who is for the time being the senior medical officer of that Hospital.
(3) Any person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was an officer of the Minister employed in the Central Mental Hospital and who opts within the period of six months beginning on such commencement to be appointed to an office under the relevant health board shall be so appointed by the chief executive officer as from the commencement of an order under this section.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act, 1845, the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, arrange for functions relating to the repairing, enlarging, improving, upholding or furnishing of the Central Mental Hospital to be performed by the relevant health board.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C6
Functions transferred and references to “Department of Finance” and “Minister for Finance” construed (29.07.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011), arts. 2, 3, 5 and sch. 1 part 2, in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 6-9.
2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the performance of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or instrument made thereunder and relating to the administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, on and after the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under the provisions of —
(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 1, and
(b) the statutory instruments specified in Schedule 2,
are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
…
5. References to the Minister for Finance contained in any Act or instrument under an Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
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Schedule 1
Enactments
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Part 2
1922 to 2011 Enactments
Number and Year
Short Title
Provision
(1)
(2)
(3)
…
…
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No. 1 of 1970
Health Act 1970
Sections 44, 45, 52, 53, 56 and 59
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…
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C7
References to “health board” construed as references to Health Service Executive (1.01.2005) by Health Act 2004 (42/2004), ss. 56(a), 66, S.I. No. 887 of 2004.
Definitions (Part 10).
56.—In this Part “specified body” means—
(a) the health boards,
…
References to specified bodies.
66.—Subject to this Act, references (however expressed) to a specified body in any Act passed before the establishment day, or in any instrument made before that day under an Act, are to be read as references to the Executive, unless the context otherwise requires.
Editorial Notes:
E140
Power pursuant to section exercised (18.08.1971) by Central Mental Hospital Order 1971 (S.I. No. 236 of 1971).
HEALTH ACT 1970
PART V
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 76
Amendment of hospital charters, etc.
76.—(1) The Minister may by order, on the application of the governing body of a hospital, amend a charter or private Act relating to that hospital.
(2) A draft of an order which it is proposed to make under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the order shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each House.
(3) Before laying the draft of an order under this section before each House of the Oireachtas, the Minister shall consult the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C52
Powers of Minister under section extended (15.07.1996) by Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1996 (23/1996), s. 2, commenced on enactment.
Powers of Minister under section 76 of Health Act, 1970.
2.—(1) Where the Minister considers that any re-organisation or extension of the provision of hospital services in connection with which an order under the relevant section is proposed to be made would be more effectually carried out by including a provision in such an order—
(a) providing for the establishment of a body corporate and the assignment of a title to it, and
(b) where the said order relates to the charter of a hospital, providing that the provisions of that charter shall, in lieu of applying or having effect in relation to the body incorporated by that charter, be deemed to apply and have effect in relation to the body corporate established by the said provision,
the Minister may include such a provision in that order.
(2) An order under the relevant section which contains the provision referred to in subsection (1) of this section may also provide for—
(a) the transfer to the body corporate established by the said provision of such of the functions, property, rights, liabilities or members of staff of—
(i) the first-mentioned body in subsection (1) (b) of this section (hereafter in this section referred to as “the original body”),
(ii) any other hospital, or any body corporate established under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act, 1961, involved in the re-organisation or extension of hospital services in connection with which the order is made, or
(iii) the Central Council of the Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals,
as is or are specified in the order,
(b) the conferral of such powers on the original body as, in the opinion of the Minister, are necessary, in consequence of the disapplication to it of the provisions of the charter concerned by the said provision, to enable it to wind up its affairs or otherwise deal with any property, rights or liabilities of it, and
(c) any matters consequential on, or incidental to, the matters referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection.
(3) (a) The Minister may, on the application of the body corporate established by an order under the relevant section, by order, amend that order.
(b) Subsections (2) and (3) of the relevant section shall apply to an order under this subsection as they apply to an order under the relevant section.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) of the relevant section, a draft of an order under that section containing the provision referred to in subsection (1) of this section and providing for one or more than one of the matters referred to in subsection (2) of this section may be laid before each House of the Oireachtas, and a resolution approving of that draft may be passed by each such House, notwithstanding that such laying and the passing by each such House of such a resolution take place before the passing of this Act.
Editorial Notes:
E441
Power pursuant to section exercised (17.11.2014) by Saint Patrick’s Hospital Dublin (Charter Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 517 of 2014).
E442
Power pursuant to section exercised (30.10.2003) by Health Act 1970 (Section 76) Simpson’s Hospital Estate Act (Amendment) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 516 of 2003).
E443
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.08.1996) by Health Act 1970 (Section 76) (Adelaide and Meath Hospital Dublin Incorporating The National Children’s Hospital) Order 1996 (S.I. No. 228 of 1996), in effect as per reg. 2.
E444
Power pursuant to section exercised (15.07.1991) by Royal Hospital, Donnybrook (Charter Amendment) Order 1990 (S.I. No. 194 of 1991).
E445
Power pursuant to section exercised (9.12.1980) by Adelaide Hospital (Charter Amendment) Order 1980 (S.I. No. 374 of 1980).
E446
Power pursuant to section exercised (30.07.1974) by Royal Hospital For Incurables, Dublin (Charter Amendment) Order 1974 (S.I. No. 244 of 1974).
E447
Power pursuant to section exercised (26.05.1972) by Rotunda Hospital (Amendment of Charter) Order 1972 (S.I. No. 137 of 1972).
Schedule 5
F157[FIFTH SCHEDULE
EACH OF THE HOSPITALS SPECIFIED HEREUNDER IS SPECIFIED AS A HOSPITAL FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SCHEDULE.
Section 55.
The Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin.
Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin.
F158[Children’s Health Ireland, Dublin]
Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin.
Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Blanchardstown, Dublin.
Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin.
Cork University Hospital and Cork University Maternity Hospital, Cork.
Kilcreene Orthopaedic Hospital, Kilcreene, Kilkenny.
Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick.
Mid-Western Regional Maternity Hospital, Limerick.
Mid-Western Regional Orthopaedic Hospital, Croom, County Limerick.
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.
Mercy University Hospital, Cork.
National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth.
Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin.
F159[…]
F159[…]
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Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin.
Sligo General Hospital.
South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital, Cork.
St. James’s Hospital, James’s Street, Dublin.
St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
F159[…]
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin.
University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway.
Waterford Regional Hospital, Waterford.
A hospital specified for the purposes of this Schedule shall continue to stand specified notwithstanding that the name or title of the hospital is altered or the location at which the hospital provides in-patient services is altered.]
Annotations
Amendments:
F157
Inserted (1.01.2014) by Health (Amendment) Act 2013 (31/2013), s. 16 and sch. 2, commenced as per s. 2(2).
F158
Inserted (1.01.2019) by Health Act 1970 (Fifth Schedule) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 554 of 2018), in effect as per reg. 2.
F159
Deleted (11.02.2014) by Health Act 1970 (Fifth and Sixth Schedules) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 75 of 2014), reg. 4, in effect as per reg. 2.
Schedule 6
F160[SIXTH SCHEDULE
EACH OF THE HOSPITALS SPECIFIED HEREUNDER IS SPECIFIED AS A HOSPITAL FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SCHEDULE.
Section 55.
Bantry General Hospital, Bantry, County Cork.
Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin.
Cavan General Hospital, Cavan, County Cavan.
Ely Hospital, Wexford.
Incorporated Orthopaedic Hospital of Ireland, Clontarf, Dublin.
Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, County Kerry.
Letterkenny General Hospital, Letterkenny, County Donegal.
Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, County Louth.
Mallow General Hospital, Mallow, County Cork.
Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo.
Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath.
Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, County Laois.
Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly.
Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis, County Clare.
Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Nenagh, County Tipperary.
Monaghan General Hospital, Monaghan, County Monaghan.
Naas General Hospital, Naas, County Kildare.
F161[Our Lady’s Hospice, Blackrock, County Dublin;]
F161[Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, Dublin;]
Our Lady’s Hospital, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim.
Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, County Meath.
F161[Peamount Hospital, Newcastle, County Dublin;]
Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway.
Roscommon Hospital, Roscommon, County Roscommon.
South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel, County Tipperary.
St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, Dublin.
St. John’s Hospital, Limerick.
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Raheny, Dublin.
St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny.
F161[St. Vincent’s Hospital, Fairview, Dublin.]
Wexford General Hospital, Wexford.
A hospital specified for the purposes of this Schedule shall continue to stand specified notwithstanding that the name or title of the hospital is altered or the location at which the hospital provides in-patient services is altered.]