Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Canavan mentions the emergency department, the maternity and paediatric unit and the cancer care facility. They are long-term projects and interim and short-term solutions are vital. Surely there is somewhere we can provide beds. Often there are issues with funding or staffing to make things hard. To tell people in Galway there is no physical space to put a new building, even a temporary or modular building, is hard to fathom. It is a concern.

Mr. Canavan has said the emergency department, and the maternity and paediatric developments are moving quite well but people in Galway would not agree because of the delays in the delivery of the project. The last time Mr. Reid was here, I asked if a planning application would be lodged this year for that. Could Mr. Canavan say a planning application will be lodged for an emergency department this year?