Mr. Colm Desmond:

The position for 2019 is that we have to provide €50 million - with a contribution, very helpfully, from other Departments - to make up the additional cost arising from the December decision on the children's hospital. The position from 2020 onwards will be subject to a memorandum for Government that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will bring forward by the end of this month. This will inform our envelopes for 2020 onwards and those of other Departments also. We will be working in parallel to determine our contractual commitments for ongoing projects but that process will await that particular Government decision. We will then have the parameters within which to frame the additional costs arising for the hospital and all other capital costs from 2020 onwards.