Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for her detailed response. I thank her, in particular, for saying that relevant documentation to developers will be issued before the end of May. That takes us one step closer and it is the major step towards getting everything moving. I thank the Minister of State for her engagement and work on this matter, and her help in pushing it along. There are many things going on in the Minister of State's Department, including the cybersecurity issue we heard about last week and, with that in mind, I thank her for prioritising primary care centres. As she said, the Government is committed to prioritising primary care. I can see that in Cahir. A primary care centre opened in Cahir approximately two or three months before the onset of Covid-19. GPs and public health nurses in that primary care centre do not know where they would have been had they been in their old facility, nor how they would have coped. The comparison between the challenges they face and the challenges they would have faced if they were not in a primary care centre is like comparing chalk and cheese. It is massive for Fethard and the surrounding areas that they will have a primary care centre in the future. I thank the Minister of State again for her work and for her commitment that the next stage will happen at the end of May.