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‹ Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation

Gorey primary care centre

Summary

Deputy Byrne complained that the planned Gorey primary care centre was absent from the HSE capital plan despite years of promises. The Taoiseach said it may have gone to tender in a wider bundle and undertook to seek a ministerial response.

In the recently published HSE capital plan, there is no mention of the planned primary care centre for Gorey. While primary care centres are enormously successful, this has been promised since 2010. During the lifetime of the previous Seanad, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, took four Commencement matters from me on this, and she took a Topical Issue earlier this year. There has been no progress on the part of the HSE. When the former Minister, Stephen Donnelly, met HSE estates in November 2023, it indicated this would be a top priority. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, when she was before this House, assured me that the call to tender would be issued by the end of quarter 1 this year. I have raised the matter with the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. Will the Government facilitate an urgent meeting between the Minister, me and other representatives of north Wexford, where this is an important issue, to finally address it? I have no confidence in HSE estates to address an issue that has now been running for 15 years but for which it still has not issued the call to tender.

Comment on this

My understanding is - I will check it - that it may have gone out to tender as part of a bundle that could involve Lismore primary care centre as well.

There has been a lot of progress made on primary care centres over the past four to five years. Gorey is a huge and growing town and area.

Comment on this

We have had no progress.

Comment on this

I hear what the Deputy is saying. I will talk to the Minister and get her to respond to the Deputy in respect of the issue.

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