Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler, Rabbitte and Feighan, to the House. Having waited eight years for a Minister to champion their primary care centre, the people of Finglas will be delighted that three Ministers of State have come along all at once. This project dates back to 2012. The HSE, local GPs, elected representatives and the community all agree on the need for a primary care centre. The budget and plans were in place and the HSE proceeded, despite being advised by local representatives that planning difficulties would arise on the site suggested. Unfortunately An Bord Pleanála, the independent body making the decision, refused planning permission for that site. There was an unsatisfactory delay of almost eight years in the HSE's identification of a new site but the partnership of Dublin City Council and the local parish has now reached that point. I ask the Department of Health to do everything it can to expedite this. The people of Finglas want to see a fire lit under this project. They want to see it delivered.

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