Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With regard to modular build in general, the Department and I will have to make a number of decisions quite shortly on two things. The first is assessing what sites are appropriate for modular builds, that is, can physically contain modular builds, and where they can work from an engineering and layout point of view, which lay people such as myself are not familiar with. A body of work is ongoing there. The second is which sites could be delivered quickly and in advance of the pressures that tend to peak in December and January, although there are year round pressures in hospitals such as Mayo University Hospital. We will be examining those two issues quite shortly and Mayo will be considered in that context.

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