Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In April 2016 I asked an oral parliamentary question in the House about a proposed primary care centre for Tullow in County Carlow. I was told "The HSE proposes to deliver the primary care centre for the Tullow, Rathvilly and Hacketstown area using the direct/own-build mechanism." The HSE said its capital plan would fund the centre. Following several parliamentary questions in six years since, the HSE told me that Tullow was the only place identified for the centre. Last year then I was told it was to begin in quarter 4. I am still waiting to be told where the centre is to go and I hope the Taoiseach can tell me. Recently I met a crowd of people in Borris, County Carlow, which is also in urgent need of a primary care centre. That is a rural part of Carlow and it is so important that we have these facilities in rural areas. It would help to stop the crowds at the accident and emergency departments and people could be treated in these centres. I ask the Taoiseach to make this a priority.

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