Primary Care Centres Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 7 September 2018

Friday, 7 September 2018

Questions (1459)

Catherine Connolly

Question:

1459. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 389 of 26 September 2017 and 1640 of 17 April 2018 and further to a request made by the HSE to the islands division of her Department to acquire an identified site for a replacement primary health centre on Inisbofin, County Galway, if the site has been acquired; if not, when a decision will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36732/18]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

I can confirm for the Deputy that a site adjacent to the airstrip on the island to be used for construction of a replacement primary health centre on Inishbofin has not yet been acquired by the HSE. My Department is in contact with both the HSE and the Irish Aviation Authority with regard to the issue and the matter is being progressed in the context of the review of submissions received as part of the public consultation process in relation to the Inishboffin and Cleggan airstrip sites.

Question No. 1460 answered with Question No. 1438.