Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Nobody is trying to hide anything. I am looking at my speaking note on the national children's hospital, which has not changed in a week, and it talks about the costs of investment in ICT, the roll-out of electronic health recording through new ICT capital programmes, the kind of thing Deputy Cullinane is now supposedly revealing as some new piece of data that we do not have. This is information that has been in the public domain.

The issue is around the scheduling of capital expenditure to take account of the increased costs of the national children's hospital, to ensure that projects that have been committed to are followed through on. The Minister for Health's commitment to the second cath lab as part of the 2019 service plan is there. I was not at the meeting this morning but what I suspect is that Deputy Cullinane was not told that the second cath lab in Waterford is going to be delayed. He was told that the funding is in a process of review.

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