Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Brian O'Connell:

Yes, we can write back formally to the committee. I will give context of where it has gone from.

An exercise was done and identified all the 356 needs at the time through further engagement and ongoing review, both at local and national levels. They would have been reviewed and refined from that initial assessment, for example, where it would have been deemed to be more appropriate. Coolock is a bigger centre and serves Coolock and Darndale, with a small outreach in Darndale that already existed. They are the sorts of element where we have gone for slightly bigger centres and less quantity, which has been better for service provision and the delivery of the programme. That is the context, but we can come back to the committee-----

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