Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Derek Tierney:

We are dealing with elective voluntary capacity in two ways. The Government has recognised that we will move first with our surgical hub programme. That is under construction in Cork, which will be the first phase of delivering that capacity for patients who need ambulatory care in Cork. We are also progressing the planning application in conjunction with the local authority for the site at St. Stephen's. We are in a detailed design programme on that. We are engaging with the local authority. I believe Mr. O'Connell or his colleagues were in with the local authority on Monday. We are now discussing how best to access that site in conjunction with the local authority. Does Mr. O'Connell want to add to that?

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