Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)

2:00 am

Mr. Derek Tierney:

I thank the Deputy for the question. He will be aware that we appointed our design teams last November. We are moving at pace now through a detailed design. In fairness, the design teams have started to engage with the local authorities on preplanning discussions. Our ambition is to get to a planning application by the end of this year, for sure. We are not waiting for this, though. We are also starting to figure out how best to design enabling work packages. I am going to sound like a broken drum here, but we are back into an NDP review and a funding discussion, ultimately, to progress our elective programme. In the meantime, we are-----

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