Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are no half promises in relation to CNUs. The Government in 2016 announced a massive project to rebuild 90 CNUs across the length and breadth of the country. Some 48 of them are concluded. We lost two years during Covid as I think everybody would understand. There are seven currently under way, one in Clonmel in south Tipperary which will be handed over to the HSE in quarter 1 of next year. In respect of the one in Nenagh, there are no half promises. It is on the capital plan. The HSE has stated that it is currently trying to get the best site suitable for the people who will be living in this. It will be their home from home. Just lest there be any ambiguity here, the residents who will eventually move into the new CNU are currently being well looked after in Nenagh.

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