Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State.I appreciate how difficult it has been for the Department to access properties for a range of services. That 183 properties remain under the control of a State agency is not acceptable, but I use the Camolin example because I am very familiar with it. We have been hearing these excuses for ten years. This is an update, because the last time I asked this question in the House we were told by the HSE that Wexford County Council was not interested in the property. Now, we are told it is. I really question how the Minister of State can have confidence in HSE estates given that it continues to leave vacant so many properties throughout the country and is not treating this issue with urgency when there is such demand for property for so many services. It is crazy. The property in Camolin has been vacant for ten years. That is not just not acceptable.