Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not quite sure how to respond to this. The only information that is new in this statement is the fact that the building is held freehold in Camolin. Finally we know that this title issue raised by the HSE was a nonsense. Next year, we will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of the failure of the HSE estates to do anything. The Minister of State's own Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform is cited here with regard to a circular. He can hardly be satisfied that this is how to effectively manage public expenditure.

There is this nonsense about the primary care centre because we are again getting the same answers around car parking. I appreciate the answer about the Fórsa trade union. Yet, there is nothing in this that I have not been told a year or 18 months ago, or that people were not told four years ago. I have no confidence in HSE estates to manage any of these properties.

I will make a more general point about the crisis we face with regard to accommodation on a whole range of levels. The HSE continues to have more than 400 buildings around the State that it has left either derelict or unused. The organisation is not fit for purpose.