Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The project is on track and has planning permission. It is ready to go to the initial works, which is the enabling works around the car park and the pharmacy. It is a significant investment, in the region of €300 million to €400 million, to build a state-of-the-art co-located maternity hospital on the campus of St. Vincent's University Hospital, which will be followed in turn with The Coombe moving to St. James's Hospital and The Rotunda moving to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. Given that it is such an important project and that the hospital will be with us for 100 years, if not more, it is important to get its ownership and governance right. The Minister is still engaging both with Holles Street and St. Vincent's University Hospital to get that right but we are confident that we can get there.

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