Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023
9:30 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
In the primary care centres, we are still working through the completion of the list from previous Government times. We had a spurt of growth across the country. The lease model has slowed down, where developers develop the primary care centre and we lease it back over 25 years. That has become harder to achieve in the past two years with construction inflation. Developers would say the model does not work for them as easily. That has slowed it down. There was a public private partnership model that delivered 14 primary care centres across the country. There were also some direct HSE builds. I will have to come back to the Deputy about St. Raphael's campus. However, in fairness to the Minister, I know he is looking at the primary care centre model. We are challenged to get people to develop centres to the same scale as we did for the past five or six years.
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