We are over time. I call Deputy Stanley.

Staying with the health issue, we know how important primary care services are in keeping people out of hospital. As we move towards implementing Sláintecare, which has been moving way too slowly, I want to ask in particular about people in the east of County Laois near the County Carlow border. The people of Graiguecullen, Ballylynan, The Swan, Doonane, Crettyard and Killeen depend on the centre in Graiguecullen, which sits right on the border on Oakley estate. Before Covid, a lot of services were provided in that small centre. When Covid came, it obviously closed, like many other places, and many of those services have not been re-established there. An example of what is happening is-----

What centre?

What type of centre?

Graiguecullen on the Laois-Carlow border.

Is it a primary care centre?

Is it a day centre?

What is happening is that if elderly people and other people from that area need an eye test, they have to go to Athlone, which is a 230 km round trip.

I thank the Deputy.

Elderly people who need physiotherapy have to go to Portlaoise. They may not have a car. That is 85 km.

I thank the Deputy.

I am asking the Tánaiste to bring this back to the Minister for Health to ask him to get that centre expanded and upgraded in Graiguecullen.

The Tánaiste to respond. We are way over time.

Is it a primary care centre?

No, it is a health clinic, but a substantial number of services were provided there.

I will talk to the Minister for Health.

I accept that it is not a primary care centre-----

I just want clarity, that is all.

-----but we need is to have that health centre providing more services-----

I thank the Deputy.

-----for the people in that corner of Laois.

There is no excuse for services that existed pre-Covid not to exist now.

People have to travel 230 km for an eye test.

We are eating into the time.

The Deputy referenced that point and I agree with him on that. For some reason, however, some services were very slow in coming back even though resources were not diluted. There is a question mark over how that happened. I will talk to the Minister for Health in respect of what the Deputy has raised.