Disability Issues
Seanad Éireann — 2026-02-10
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Sarah O'Reilly (AON), Agricultural Panel

I thank the Minister of State for her response but I still have not got clarity. The clarity I have been asking for is whether a location has been selected for the day services unit. The Minister of State said the HSE is looking in Monaghan. Is that Monaghan town? Do they have a location selected? There is also information that the site the HSE and the property steering group has approved for capital is deemed as a hospital setting so it cannot be used.
This means there is still this confusion, and the Minister of State has not even mentioned this in her response. If this last site selection is deemed unsuitable because it is in a hospital setting, I want to get information for those parents and children looking in. The children need to know where they are going and their parents need to know they have a space, but we still have this obfuscation of where the location is going to be, if there is a site, if there is a design and if it is going to be built at all. What is the issue that is blocking this? Is the Minister of State still telling me that St. Davnet's campus is the location of the site, when there is information to say that site is now seen as not being suitable because it is deemed a hospital setting?

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Sitting date: 2026-02-10