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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I do not have the date here but we are keeping the pressure on Galway County Council. The maps have been agreed, so if there is anything the Deputy can do to ensure the council gets the necessary contracts in to us, we will be happy to get them signed and moved on. I know how important it is that there should be a primary care centre there. I will take the matter up with the Minister for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Island Communities
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 49. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 26 September 2023, for a status update on the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10401/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: My question relates specifically to islands, this time Inishbofin, and the rigmarole that has taken place for almost 20 years as the islanders wait for a health centre. I ask for an update on the transfer of land so that we can give them a definite answer on when an essential piece of infrastructure for this island will be provided.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Connolly for raising this issue. As the Deputy is aware, the land on which the Inishbofin is located is currently owned by Galway County Council. These lands were acquired by way of a compulsory order by Galway County Council on behalf of the Department. Part of the site is intended for eventual use by the HSE for a primary care centre. The transfer of these lands...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Does the Minister have any date for completion of the project? Will the Department have any role in the primary care centre or is that strictly the Health Service Executive? Will there be matching funding? Let me try to give a tiny bit of background. This has been going on for 20 years. According to the 2022 census, Inishbofin had 188 inhabitants, which, luckily, was an increase. A...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Heather Humphreys: As I said, the matter is with Galway County Council at present. My Department was in touch with it in November and again in January to get its solicitor to complete the legal aspects. The Deputy is correct. I was reading the file and the project goes back a good while, to say the least. The Inishbofin airstrip was completed in late 2010 but, in July 2013, the then Minister of State...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (5 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I would appreciate it if the Minister could give me an approximate date for the transfer of the land. The national primary care island services review, in itself, was a work of art, first, in getting it done and then in trying to get the report. A number of TDs asked for that. We are talking about a basic health centre, a primary care strategy and a policy for the islands. That is why...