Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)

The Minister did mention Ballinderry and the eye clinic, Charter Medical, there. This MRI cost the State €8 million. An additional €1 million was collected from the local community over the years for this. To see it not reach its full potential simply is not good enough. I have no issue with Charter Medical. For full disclosure, I have used the service there myself at the minor injury unit - it is not a personal thing with it – but this is a taxpayer-funded MRI machine. We should not be sending people 3 km down the road to the private one. It does not make any sense.