Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I cannot comment on the issue in relation to Listowel but in relation to Cork city there is a problem in that we are running centres in two locations in the city whereas there is a strong view that one location in the city centre would be more effective. The question is whether or not work should be done by the HSE with SouthDoc to aim towards that. The current situation is that the provision of services is totally on one side of the city and there is not access by bus or other public transport to the location on the south side of the city. Even the people on the south side do not have bus access to that location. There is a major question, if a proper reorganisation was done, about whether one centre in the city centre would be far more effective than the way it is now. It is totally disjointed and now we have one centre closed. It is something the HSE should be looking at with SouthDoc to resolve rather than pushing it down the road, which appears to be what it is doing at the moment.