Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is a specific question and I would appreciate if the Minister answered it, rather than discussing the accident and emergency unit or other planned developments at University Hospital Galway. I am seeking specific information. In December 2016, the Saolta University Healthcare Group wrote to the Minister seeking approval to carry out an options appraisal in respect of a new hospital. The Minister waited five months before, thankfully, giving it permission to do so. It is almost October 2017 and I ask specifically whether the options appraisal has commenced. If so, when did it start, when is the completion date and who is carrying it out?

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