Councillors seek meeting with Harney over clinic

LISMORE’S elected public representatives are seeking an urgent meeting with Health Minister Mary Harney to deliver a clinic.

Last year Caredoc rolled out an €800,000 programme that would establish clinics in Waterford, Dungarvan, and Lismore providing an after-hours medical service to all corners of the county. However, while the programme has come on schedule as planned for Waterford and Dungarvan the people of Lismore are still waiting for their clinic. The delay has been widely condemned, and now the nine local town councillors are demanding an early meeting with the minister to seek an explanation for a situation they insist is both intolerable and unacceptable.

Fianna Fáil’s Jimmy O’Gorman brought the matter to a head at a meeting of the council when he moved a notice of motion seeking the meeting with Ms Harney.