Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

The overall capital resource compared to the past ten years is going from €4 billion to €10.9 billion. We will have significant discretionary moneys to move forward, not just on the children’s hospital but a range of other projects. As was explained before the break, the process of concluding that, particularly regarding the 2019 capital plan, is not yet concluded. Even if I have a great deal of certainty about a project but one that is not contractually committed to, I do not want to go into one by one statements on them because that could turn into a tour of Ireland of all of the projects. I have to respect the process which has not yet concluded. There are significant capital resources to move ahead, not just with the children’s hospital but a range of other health care infrastructure projects.

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