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

We discussed this at the Cabinet subcommittee on health on Monday, trying to figure out and carry out a review into how we might be able to speed up capital development in the health sector. The Deputy will be painfully aware that the development of an emergency department and of maternity and paediatric services in University Hospital Galway seem to be going on forever, which is extremely frustrating. There are similar examples in other parts of the country. However, there is a balance to be struck. Anything that is done more quickly with less review and scrutiny is more likely to go wrong, and we have seen this happen in other health projects. We are carrying out a review into the public spending code and whether we can reduce the number of steps and hoops a project has to get through to be built. I understand the Deputy's point that delays cost money.

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