Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The commissioning timeframe that CHI has put on the process to date is in the order of nine months. I believe it can be substantively done in less than that time, possibly in fewer than eight months. I also believe that a hospital of that size will be commissioned and opened and then we will incrementally build on services, because there will be new services there.