Peter Cleere (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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102. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the proposed upgrade to the health centre in Freshford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34437/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The HSE have appointed a Design Team for the extension to Freshford Health Centre, Co. Kilkenny. These works will include an internal reconfiguration of the existing health centre, including minor upgrade works and a proposed new extension with new clinical rooms for practice nurses and GPs, an expansion of the carpark and entrance realignment.

A planning application was submitted and a Request for Further Information (RFI’S) from Kilkenny County Council has been received. The Design Team are currently working through these requests for further information in order to submit this information by Q3 2025.

Subject to statutory approvals, the availability of funding and prioritisation, it is the intention of the HSE to be in a position to commence construction on Freshford Health Centre in Q1 2026.