Question from Deputy Duncan Smith - PQ 41771-26

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that the Donabate Health Centre has 2.5 public health nurses working in the centre to support a current population close to 15,000 which will surpass 20,000 in two years time; will she acknowledge that additional resources are urgently required to ensure the growing Donabate community has sufficient resources to provide supports to the growing community with a standalone primary care centre also urgently needed to support this rapidly growing community; and if she will make a statement on the matter.