Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting

9:30 am

Mr. Brian O'Connell:

An exercise was done in 2012 to identify 350-odd locations across the country that required either supplementary or additionality to primary care centres. A number of them were addressed by existing facilities. Then we prioritised, down through a number of different parameters, how big the need was spatially so whether they had any facility at all or how substandard so they got a score rating under existing facilities, how pressing was the replacement need and demographics came into it as well. There is a number of other ones that came in. They are prioritised from 1 to 350 on that list and we have been working our way down through that list.

The operational lease mechanism is slightly opportunistic so where we have advertised-----

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