{"id":433369,"date":"2026-01-26T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433369\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:38:16","slug":"no-funding-commitment-for-new-roscommon-psychiatric-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433369\/","title":{"rendered":"No funding commitment for new Roscommon psychiatric unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Health Minister has not committed to funding for a new psychiatric unit in Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes as Minister Mary Butler was quizzed over the status of a new psychiatric unit at Cavan General Hospital in the D\u00e1il.<\/p>\n<p>In her response, the Minister named-checked Roscommon as one of the proposed projects.<\/p>\n<p>In December, it was revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shannonside.ie\/news\/design-team-to-be-in-place-in-march-for-new-psychiatric-unit-in-roscommon-279565\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a design team will be appointed by March<\/a> to begin planning a new 50-bed acute inpatient psychiatric unit in Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p>Almost \u20ac1.6 billion was allocated to the mental health sector in Budget 2026.<\/p>\n<p>While not committing to who has been successful, Minister Butler says the work being done cannot go unnoticed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mental Health Minister has not committed to funding for a new psychiatric unit in Roscommon. The revelation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394,29005],"class_list":["post-433369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychiatric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}