Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That level of operational detail is being worked through by the HSE at the moment on a hospital-by-hospital basis. We will have a full account of that when we have the national service plan. What I can say is that I will open two new primary centres tomorrow, in Monaghan town and Clones. This entails an investment of nearly €30 million. These are state-of-the-art facilities. Critically, as we move next year to a regional basis, the people in County Monaghan will see more community care services joining up, including the two new primary care centres and the expanded capacity we are now seeing in Monaghan town. There is very significant additional capacity now by comparison with when the Government came into power in 2020.

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