Clarington Properties Ltd have lodged a planning application with Dublin City Council for a purpose built Primary Health Care Center on the site of St Josephs Catholic Institute for Deaf People on the Navan Road, Dublin 7. The application is for a two to four storey Primary Care Center containing a health food shop, café, audiology shop, medicine dispensary, HSE accommodation, day care hospital and GP clinic. You can view the full planning application by clicking here. The deadline for submissions is September 3rd 2012. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance to you with this or any other planning matter. Mary

New National Drugs Strategy
Minister for Drugs Jennifer Murnane O’Connor recently updated me in Seanad Eireann on the new national drugs strategy. Her new strategy is designed to respond to the significant changes in drug-use patterns in Ireland and to ensure equitable access to services across the country. The draft strategy proposes five strategic


