Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To go back to the other issue in relation to elective hospitals, we have identified clearly that there is a need to build three elective hospitals and that has been identified for some time. In Cork there is much land owned by the HSE. Sarsfieldscourt is a site that could be immediately fast-tracked. Is there any plan at this stage to look again at fast-tracking that, now that we are going to have difficulties trying to keep the same capacity for dealing with procedures in our existing hospitals? We now need to urgently look at what we can do in a very short time period.