Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

What if they bundled projects together? We have a lot of hospitals now with equipment that is so old it is embarrassing and that will continue. If we could find a mechanism where equipment could be renewed much more rapidly. There was something of a mechanism before, I am not saying that it was perfect but it resulted in a big improvement in things such as MRI machines being provided to hospitals. At the moment, the director of the HSE is bemoaning the fact that he has a very large capital investment gap, including on small-scale stuff.