Seán Kyne (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. McCallion. The Minister said he is fast-tracking the development of new elective surgical hubs in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford to address shorter-term capacity demands. What sort of timescales, locations and so on does the Minister have in mind for that? The elective hospitals have been decided on for Cork, Dublin and Galway. They are medium-term. For these surgical hubs, is it a case of going to the private market and seeing if there is an available place? Presumably one has to identify locations and go for planning and so on.