Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I turn to the minutiae. We are three and a half years into the national maternity strategy. The €5 million should have been committed last year or the previous year. Why has the €5 million for the new maternity hospital in Limerick not been committed? It is a small amount relative to the quantum we are discussing. Re-profiling is happening. No projects are being dropped or anything like it. Rather, everything is being pushed out. Everyone can see it. That is just an example but I could give another ten. The HSE, through the Department, cannot find €5 million for this essential project. It is the only hospital in the national maternity strategy located outside Dublin that needs to be completely rebuilt. It needs to be located on the site of University Hospital Limerick.