Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I join in the Deputies' tributes to all the staff at the Children's University Hospital in Temple Street. We are all agreed that a tremendous service has been provided there for many years. I am taking the matters on the adjournment on behalf of my colleague, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney.

The Mater and children's hospital development is the largest single capital development project in the HSE capital programme. It involves the redevelopment of the Mater campus to include considerably expanded and improved facilities for the Mater itself and the construction of new, purpose-built accommodation which will replace the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street.

The tender documentation for the main scheme is complete and the project is ready to go to tender. In the context of the decision——

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