Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. I like to be constructive and take on board constructive suggestions, and the Deputy made one on this matter. Deputy Donnelly and I spoke in the Dáil about how the children's hospital construction had to conclude before the new building for the Coombe could be built, but the Deputy rightly suggested that we should be doing preparatory work in this regard. In the capital plan we worked with the HSE to identify funding to appoint teams for each of the individual hospitals so some of that preparatory work could be done. Perhaps I could write to the Deputy with some of the detail.