Malcolm Byrne (Wicklow-Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the recently published HSE capital plan, there is no mention of the planned primary care centre for Gorey. While primary care centres are enormously successful, this has been promised since 2010. During the previous Seanad, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, took four Commencement matters from me on this and she took a Topical Issue earlier this year. There has been no progress by the HSE. When the former Minister, Stephen Donnelly, met HSE estates in November 2023, it indicated this would be a top priority. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, when she was before this House, assured me that the call to tender would be issued by the end of quarter 1 this year. I have raised the matter with the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. Will the Government facilitate an urgent meeting between the Minister, me and other representatives of north Wexford, where this is an important issue, to finally address it? I have no confidence in HSE estates to address an issue that has now been running for 15 years but for which it still has not issued the call to tender.

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