Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is my tenth time to raise Ballaghaderreen and the need for additional practical resources. It has received refugees and international protection persons for seven years now and has nothing to show for it. We have to battle for an extension for the local school. At long last, there has been movement. Funding for the childcare facility has been pulled and we are awaiting a decision on that. There is no access to GPs for people who are moving into the town and existing patients have to wait weeks for appointments.

I would love to know where existing communities have received additional medical supports. I asked the Tánaiste about this last November and he said he would provide me with a list. I am still waiting for that. I would love to know one area in the country that has received additional medical supports. Ballaghaderreen should have received that, but has not. I again ask the Minister of State where the additional health resources are being put in. If they are being put in, Ballaghaderreen should be top of the list, or very close to it, for additional health resources. There is a desperate need for these resources.

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