Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It will probably come out of the capital funding. Where else are we going to get it? My concern is, for example, that primary care centres in Kilkenny will not get funding. In June, the Minister promised a MRI facility for St. Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny and that it would be in the 2019 plan. The same concerns have been raised about the 24-7 cardiac unit in Waterford. Will all these smaller projects be affected? Will they be put on the back-burner and not see the light of day for six years because of the children’s hospital costs? Some of these have already applied for planning and are in the pipeline for grant aid.