The directors and trustees of the closure-threatened Corrin Memorial Home in Peel will be told by health chiefs to give residents more time.

And the Treasury is pledging money to help the Department of Health and Social Care find a solution to the crisis.

At the moment, residents of the residential home in Peel have been given notice it will close at the end of July - just three months from the announcement in April, when directors said the home was no longer viable economically.

But during an emergency debate in Tynwald on Tuesday, members backed proposals for the DHSC enter into talks with the directors and trustees of the charities that run the home to not only extend the notice period for residents, but to secure the whole site for future integrated care purpose - including residential care - in the west.

And the possibility of refurbishing the home was also raised.

Kate Lord-Brennan MLC, who is to stand in the Keys general election for Glenfaba and Peel in September, was granted permission to call the emergency debate and she raised fears for the 21 residents affected, plus the 40 staff who are set to lose their jobs.

’The lives and livelihoods of those people are absolutely at risk,’ she said.

Her original motion called for Tynwald to give its opinion that six months’ notice was needed and that the DHSC to secure the property and land for future provision of elderly care.

Ms Lord-Brennan said the issue had ’national implications’.

Health Minister David Ashford tabled an amendment to ’strengthen’ that motion by directing the government to enter talks seeking a six-month period of notice for residents and to secure the site for future care use.

He said more time was needed than the original three-month notice period for the department to come up with a solution.

Treasury Minister Alfred Cannan said a full examination of options available - both to the trustees of the home and the community - was needed.

’We will work with the department to ensure that appropriate funding is given to ensure that we can find a solution as quickly as possible,’ he pledged.

Julie Edge (Onchan) received support for a further amendment that inserted a proviso on the notice period called for to take effect ’if notice is regrettably necessary’ - leaving open the possibility the home may not have to close. She said it was important that no closure took place until a new provision had been found.

Chris Thomas (Douglas Central) described that as an important amendment ’because it does not assume that the closure and the notice will be given, it assumes that we are in a moratorium and we are trying to put things in a better place’.

The DHSC will also be asked to report back on a care strategy for the west October.

Both MHKs for Peel, Geoffrey Boot and Ray Harmer, supported the motion and the amendments, as did all Tynwald members.

Mr Harmer said: ’We need time to develop options as to the whole way we can build care.’

Mr Boot said: ’What we have got to do is snatch something positive from what has happened. There is a bigger debate to be had but at the same time we need to concentrate on what we are going to do for the residents and the Corrin Home in the immediate future.’

A public meeting about the future of the home was held in the Corrin Hall on Monday and was attended by politicians including Treasury Minster Alfred Cannan.