I want to ask the Minister about Nenagh community nursing home. I announced funding for this nursing home, which will be the most state-of-the-art nursing home in Ireland. Funding was provided in 2016 and it went for planning in 2019. We built it beside the hospital in Nenagh. The Minister for Health, in May 2022, told me it would be open by the middle of 2023. The construction and so on was completed in October last year. Unfortunately, in the past few weeks, the Minister has written to me, through the HSE, to say there is no date for opening this state-of-the-art building, which has effectively been finished since last October, because of the recruitment embargo. People are crying out for this facility. Individuals are trying to transfer from St. Conlon's, which will not pass HIQA inspection. The people of north Tipperary, Nenagh and the surrounds are wondering when this will open and when the 69 full-time required personnel will be recruited. Is there a date this year when it will be open?

I thank Deputy Kelly for raising the issue. I am somewhat familiar from our time engaging on this in my past roles of the importance of the Nenagh community nursing home and the construction now being completed at the facility. Obviously, the State has invested significant funding in trying to bring this project forward. I will ask the Minister for Health to come back to the Deputy directly and to note his very serious concerns.

The Minister for Health has come back in the past two weeks and told me he does not have a date.

I will ask the Minister for Health to provide the Deputy with a further update and to liaise with the HSE chief executive on the matter.