MORE than 40 Guernsey companies will take back their properties after a UK care home operator folded.

ONE of the consequences of the ‘will he, won’t he?’ saga of the impending resignation of the deputy Health and Social Services Department minister over his unsuccessful attempt to delay provision of extra-care homes is to ask what sort of game his two main supporters were playing.

DEPUTY Health and Social Services minister Andrew Le Lievre said yesterday that he will now wait until the end of the week before deciding whether to resign from the department.

In the post yesterday, Guernsey’s deputies received a three-page briefing document from Housing explaining that if the extra-care homes project is delayed – as a majority of Health and Social Services members wish – that there will be about £1m.-worth of remedial work required to keep Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue House habitable.

A LETTER warning States members that more than £1m. could be needed for significant repairs to Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue House should the Assembly delay redevelopment plans has been described as ‘a bit desperate’ by the deputy trying to put the brakes on.

MORE than £1m. could be needed to keep Longue Rue House and Maison Maritaine going if the extra-care housing redevelopment plans are delayed, according to Housing minister Dave Jones.

Guernsey’s Health minister yesterday released a statement on the current row triggered by a majority of his political board members which threatens to derail proposals for extra care housing designed to make Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue House fit for purpose.

GUERNSEY’S Treasury minister will continue to support plans to redevelop Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue House despite the submission of a motion to delay debate because of concerns over funding.

NEWS that a majority of Health and Social Services Department members are now opposing a radical change in the delivery of care homes for elderly islanders is bizarre, to say the least.

SUPPORTERS of a motion trying to delay debate on plans to redevelop Maison Maritaine and Longue Rue House have been accused of trying to ‘torpedo’ the proposals at the last minute.