€11.5m palliative care unit lies idle

A PALLIATIVE care unit built two years ago at a cost of €11.5 million is lying idle, it has emerged.

Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan said Milford Hospice in Limerick was one of a number of new facilities not being used due to the Government’s failure to sanction money to pay staff.

“It’s a perfect example of the lack of coherence and absence of joined-up thinking that is bedeviling the health services.