Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is par for the course for some Senators on the other side. A number of other high priority locations were selected for direct investment by the Health Service Executive using Exchequer funds from the HSE capital allocation. The remaining locations were then considered for development by way of public private partnerships as a result of the Government's stimulus package. The criteria used for the primary care centres under the public private partnership model were as follows: the deprivation index for the catchment population of the centre; the service priority identified by each integrated service area local health office; an accommodation assessment which reviewed the accommodation available-----