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

----deferred. It requires a reprofiling of about €100 million worth of capital expenditure this year out of a total capital budget of €7 billion. It requires a reprofiling of the budget of somewhere between 1% and 2%, half of that coming from the Department of Health and the other half coming from other Departments. Where there are overruns in expenditure, there are consequences, but it is not true to say that any project will be stopped or cut or cancelled. Some may well be deferred.

When we talk about the children's hospital, I really think we need to understand the value of this project as well as the cost. This is going to be a state-of-the-art children's hospital, a revolution in healthcare for our children - a hospital attached to a major adult hospital, a maternity hospital and an academic centre, with 450 single beds, with rooms for parents to stay beside their sick kids at night-----

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