It has emerged this morning that both of the primary care centres in Health Minister James Reilly's constituency will be built under separate contracts to the other sites on the list.
The Sunday Business Post has revealed that both Swords and Balbriggan, which were among five locations added to a priority list of centres, will not proceed under the Public-Private Partnership initially set out for all of the developments.
The newspaper says these centres, along with another five, will go ahead as part of a lease model where a developer will be responsible for building and managing the facility, including the sourcing of a GP.
James Reilly's decision to add these two locations to the original list drawn up by former Junior Health Minister Roisin Shortall proved widely controversial and led to Ms Shortall's