Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

These are enabling works. There has been broad agreement for some time that this would be the location. The State has been criticised in the past for being too slow in its major capital projects. It was a decision for the previous Government. My understanding is that the decision made, which seemed sensible, was that where we could do things in parallel to speed up how quickly we could open this hospital, those things would be done.