Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. She paints a fabulous picture of what the Drimnagh primary care centre will look like and it will have incredibly valuable services. My problem is that there are no dates in respect of it and the day when a resident of Drimnagh walks through the doors of that primary care centre could be ten years away for all I know. She mentioned preliminary reports and strategic assessment reports but how long do they take? What is their purpose? I say that as someone who does not understand what they are. Presumably, they are necessary but is it a report that will be followed by another report, following which we still will not have a primary care centre when it is desperately needed by the people here? That is my concern. We need to start seeing timelines and we need accountability for those timelines. I appreciate that is not necessarily always within the Minister's gift but it is in his gift to drive it and to demand accountability from design teams and the process.