Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of the locations and addresses of the primary care centres on the list of 35 primary care centres in the stimulus plan and detailed information on the criterion and weightings used for the selection of the most recent 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43121/12]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The full list of 35 potential locations to be progressed by PPP as part of the Government’s Infrastructure Stimulus Package was published 17 July 2012 and is available at www.healthupdate.gov.ie (press releases).

Three criteria were deployed for selecting primary care centres: 1. An assessment of deprivation – The Deprivation Index for the catchment population of the centre; 2. The service priority identified by each Integrated Service Area / Local Health Office; 3. An Accommodation Assessment which assessed accommodation available for the primary care team within the catchment area, the quality of the accommodation, and whether or not the accommodation was spread over more than one building.

Other factors were considered when selecting centres for inclusion in the PPP list. New criteria were added; it was evident, for example, that consideration needed to be given to Existing health facilities; Pressures on services, particularly acute services; GP cooperation, GP to population ratio, and cost effective GP buy-in; Implementability of a PPP (size, site and scale) and Funding options including lease or HSE build.

35 potential locations for the PPP programme were identified. Approximately 20 of these will be progressed by way of PPP. The current position is that the HSE is engaging with the NDFA as required to progress the Primary Care Centre Public Private Partnership Programme. The HSE is currently analysing the available sites in each location and engaging with the GPs in each location to determine their interest in participating in the primary care centre development.

Site identification and selection is ongoing in all locations; it is not possible to give detailed information on individual site addresses.