Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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371. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and timescale for construction of the new primary care centre in Summerhill, Dublin 1; why a centre (details supplied) was not included in those plans as originally intended. [17975/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Currently the timescale for the construction of the Summerhill primary care centre is two years. On this basis the delivery of health services is scheduled to commence from May 2018. The facility in question, which is not a HSE run service, was neither identified nor considered for inclusion within the new primary care centre at Summerhill. Generally such facilities are not included in primary care centres.

The HSE purchased the site for the Summerhill PCC, currently underway, from Dublin City Council. There may be some misunderstanding over a Dublin City Council project many years ago which proposed developments on this site and where at that time the HSE was interested in providing a health centre.