Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for the invitation to that and for the advocacy he has advanced on behalf of it. It is an outstanding service both in terms of its model of care and its approach. Shortly after I came back from that visit, I wrote to the Department of disability and outlined the commitments that had been given in the previous, Thirty-third Dáil towards it. I fully recommended it, but obviously it is within a range of funding that I require the Department's agreement on because, to be fair, the Department has a capital envelope with many other calls on it. In the past few days the Secretary General of that Department came back to me to say it may be within the HSE’s own decision-making gift. I hope to talk to him in the next two to three days about it. The fact that Dublin City Council is making available a site to be purchased behind our primary care centre, a very valuable piece of land, that presents us with the opportunity to develop other health infrastructure there as well as look after An Saol means it would be a dreadful shame if we did not go ahead with it. However, obviously I cannot make the sole decision on it. I am hoping to get some clarity in the next few days.