Nicole Ryan (Sinn Fein)

I thank the witnesses for being here today. I will start with primary healthcare. In 2018 an announcement was made by the HSE that it would build a primary healthcare centre in Kanturk. That was seven years ago. It was supposed to be built as recently as this year and it was not because the developer pulled out and it had to go back to re-tendering. The closest primary care centre for the people of Duhallow is in Mallow. For people who are elderly or very sick there is no other primary health care centre in the area. GPs are at capacity. People cannot get a new GP anywhere and they would be lucky to be seen. Primarily a lot of people use out-of-hour services in the rural constituency I am in. At what stage is the Kanturk primary healthcare centre at?