Nicole Ryan (Sinn Fein)

The news is welcome that Kanturk will eventually get a primary care centre. The issue, however, is that the people of Kanturk still have no out-of-hours service or primary care centre. A building in the middle of Kanturk that could be used as an interim centre for out-of-hours care has been identified. Equally, I have been contacted by a developer who is interested in this kind of project. I would really welcome the opportunity to work with the Department to see how we can progress this and to engage with the community to let them know what is happening. They do need some kind of out-of-hours service. While this building in the middle of Kanturk is not the end goal of course, it could be used between now and when the primary care centre is built.