Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive
9:30 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I thank the Deputy for the opportunity to address that. I know the last time I was here, he was quite frustrated at our level of responsiveness. I know the team worked with him and others in the area. Three positive and exciting things are happening. There is planning permission for the primary care centre. There was a request from the local authority for additional information which has gone in and I do not envisage any major challenge to that. Planning permission for the community nursing unit has gone in and there is an additional information requirement for that. In the case of the ambulance training base, we need additional training capacity. We are planning to grow the number of paramedics in training every year. A feasibility study, which needs to be done first, is currently being done on the possibility of locating that in the St. Raphael's campus.
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