Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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3117. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres in Dublin; the number proposed; and the delivery date of each. [40326/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The development of new Primary Care Centres (PCCs) is a key component of the efforts to enhance community care, and to deliver care in a location at, or as near as possible to an individual’s home, where it is safe and clinically appropriate to do so.

The most recent update available to the Department from the HSE indicates that there are currently 144 operational PCCs nationwide, with a further 30 scheduled to open before the end of 2023.

Those PCCs currently operational in Dublin are listed below.

Two PCCs in Knocklyon/Rathfarnham (Ballyboden) and Clondalkin Village/Moorefield/Monastery (Boot Road) are scheduled to open by the end of 2023. In addition, a further 20 PCCs in Dublin are at various stages of the development process, but estimated operational start dates are not yet available.

As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, any additional information is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.