John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The response goes on to make the point that it was never site specific, but a time is arriving when it needs to be site specific. I had a meeting with Dr. Harry Kennedy and his people in the hospital some months ago and I made it clear that the Government's priority is to fast-track the building of a central mental hospital. Nothing has changed since then. The Government must decide on a site specific location and the Government is doing that.

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