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

In 2021, funding was made available for the building of two new theatres. Everyone expected they would be finished by November 2021. It turns out that a contract for the building was not signed until November 2021 and we are now talking about July or August of this year before those two new theatres are built. Can we not deal with the type of delay occurring in the healthcare sector? Why did it take ten months to get from the time money is allocated to getting a contract signed? The tenders were already in by February yet it was November before contracts were signed.