Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I submitted a similar Adjournment matter on 4 March 2014, the response to which I have before me. I will not go into the detail but there is a severe difficulty from a practical point of view in my home town of Bantry where approximately six different offices provide various social welfare services. We all want the one-stop-shop facility but when somebody goes into a particular office the file might be in another office, and people end up swapping files. In terms of security and an onus to be fair to the general public, the system in our town is 40 or 50 years out of date. Ten or 15 years ago it was mooted that a new premises should be acquired where the various branches of the relevant Department would be located under the one roof. I ask the Minister of State for an update on that and hope the response I receive will be more positive and enlightening than the one I got 20 months ago.