Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In light of past experience, I am concerned that the Minister and the Department are being fobbed off again by HSE estates. The Minister of State will notice that the HSE said it will be advertising before the end of this year. That is obviously different from what I was told to the effect that it would be quarter 3 or quarter 4 at the latest. Our problem is that the HSE acknowledges that it has been stalled, but the reason it has been stalled is because the HSE failed to take action on these issues.

The Minister of State and I know how important primary care centres are. However, knowing all the problems that are there, why is it that HSE estates continually fails the people of Gorey and north Wexford? Consider what would happen if someone was building a house and the person who was developing it had been messing around for 13 or 14 years without a shovel going into the ground - in fact, a contractor has not yet been appointed - would they continue to trust that particular agency? I really have to question whether we can trust HSE estates to deliver on this project.