Willie Penrose
Question:484. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation for the circumstances behind the downgrading of the registrar's office in the health centre in Mullingar, County Westmeath, resulting in the removal of the authority to conduct civil marriages or civil partnerships in the Mullingar area from that office; the reason same has been transferred to Athlone primary care centre, when all of the highly qualified staff are available to carry out these functions and to licence new marriage venues in the Mullingar area; when exactly the civil marriage service for the licensing of marriage venues in the Mullingar area is likely to be returned to the Mullingar health centre; if other marriage registration offices nationally have been affected by similar downgrading; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26363/15]
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