Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

The Minister says a timeline has not been provided but he will undertake to discover one. If the House does not mind me going into a rabbit hole, I must ask what the timeline is for the Minister to tell us the timeline. We do not want to know about this in January. We want to hear about it in the Dáil. Can we hear it tomorrow? If not tomorrow, can we have it early next week? The idea that the timeline will be kept secret from the people of the north side of the city until the Dáil reconvenes in January and the Minister has the chance to give us a timeline for a timeline is not acceptable.

I heard the Minister say he has heard nothing about the centre eventually reopening with a skeleton workforce providing a skeleton service. I advise him very strongly to put his ear very close to the ground on that. It is a very real danger here. That would be unacceptable to me and more importantly, to the people of the north side of the city and beyond.

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