Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Maternity Strategy: Discussion
9:00 am
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source
The Government does not need the Chairman's vote. I will have to leave soon but on the capital plan, it is a huge budget. What Mr. Woods referred to earlier will be a huge outlay, whatever it will be. I was chancing my arm on that but it will be huge. I am not convinced. We are from the mid-west and we are thinking about Limerick. A total of €3 million is required just for the design. I have not seen sight nor sound of it. If they are struggling with providing €3 million, where will they get the volume of funding required in the next eight and a half years to finish it, with the openings done and so on?
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