Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To give an example of what we face in practice on the country, there was a health centre planned and planning permission for Inisbofin in the 2000s. It never happened. They are trying to move site but it is going on forever. More than two years ago, the Minister might remember the need for the ambulance base in Connemara. We got the ambulance and we got the staff within four months. They were to convert an old health centre into an ambulance base. We seem to be running into all sorts of problems even though it is within a 60 km/h zone, or a village zoning, with everything from parking space to planning and whatever.

On the CNU, the Minister has heard the saga of Clifden hospital, which the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, will be more than familiar with, and St. Anne's. We were promised repeatedly - the Leas-Cheann Comhairle knows all about this - a new community nursing home unit. The reality is it has not even gone to planning yet.

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