Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am finalising it now, but I have been sitting here for a long time waiting for this moment to come. My patience was just about at its tether, and when one's patience goes to one's tether it is a dangerous thing. My colleagues have raised the issue of projects in their constituencies, and there is also one in my constituency, namely, the endoscopy unit and an oncology extension at Naas General Hospital. The theory is we will have to bite hard and they will all get shelved for the foreseeable future. Is this the intention? What is the projection on this? Is finance available in the budgeting provisions made and the long-term health services plan?