Question from Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh - PQ 56926-26

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the impending threat of closure to a centre (Walkinstown social service centre the building is owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity, the HSE continues to play a positive role in the centre providing funding for wages, the centre has continued to grow for strength to strength since it first opened its doors in 1965. This a real testament to the HSE, the excellent staff and management, currently the service employs 5 staff, along with 12 staff on employment schemes providing a daily service to 50 clients, a weekly active retirement group of 25 clients, and another weekly disability group of 50 to 60 clients, a bus service for clients and facilitates the senior alert system; and is the Minster willing to allow the HSE work with the Sisters of Charity, who are no longer in a position to support the centre, to ensure this essential service remains in its current building,); her views on ensuring this essential service remains in its current building; and if she will work with the board to ensure the service remains.