Tabor House addiction centre
Deputy Guirke seeks a commitment for HSE funding to run Tabor House's planned women's addiction centre in Navan. The Minister of State says the capital plan will be announced soon and invites the deputy to send him further issues.
I raise Tabor House in Navan, County Meath. It has permission to build a 12-bedroom secondary addiction centre for women.
The plan is in place. It has been gifted a site and the local authority is going to fund the building. Tabor House sent a letter to the HSE in 2019 and while there has been a response, it was not the letter that we want, namely, a letter of promise that the HSE will fund the day-to-day running of the centre, which is about €284,000 a year. It has the plan, the building and everything in place bar this letter of promise. Imagine the difference it would make to families and those in broken homes to be able to deal with 48 women a year in secondary addiction. It is a matter of urgency that this letter is provided as soon as possible so that Tabor House can give it to the local authority and the funding can be released.
Comment on this
The capital plan is due to be announced very shortly. If the Deputy wants to bring some issues to my attention, I will follow them up in the Department.