Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I see the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is there. I would appreciate if she or the Taoiseach could find out more for me about the community nursing home for Cashel. The latest information from the HSE, 20 months since indicating it was considering other sites outside of St. Patrick's, is that no decision has been made. It is now nearly 17 months since Palmer's Hill was confirmed to be considered. There is €184,000 spent on consultants' reports and the HSE has nothing to report but a vague commitment that something may happen before the end of this year. It is not right for the elderly people in Cashel and surrounding areas to rely on half promises that something might or might not happen at some sage in the future. The people of Cashel need certainty that this unit will be delivered, and we need that certainty now. Like Scoil Aonghusa in Cashel as well, they have been approved funding for an extension but still nothing is happening other than €1.5 million for second-hand prefabs, another waste of money, which take over half the car parking spaces on them.

I do not want to be cynical here. We want to know what is happening now.

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