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

I thank the Deputies asking about the capital plan, which is still under negotiation between the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and Minister for Health. The non-publication of the plan does not, in itself, prevent capital projects from going ahead. No capital plan at all was published last year, yet the Dunmore wing was built at University Hospital Waterford and new wings were built in hospitals in Limerick and Clonmel, to give three examples. Those who are saying that the non-publication of a capital plan prevents projects from going ahead need to look out their windows and see the projects that have gone ahead.

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