Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am reasonably happy that the four big projects are going ahead. I have a specific question on that. Is the limit of €100 million per individual project? Will the elective hospital be taken as one project, the ED as another and the cancer and the laboratories as another or is it a cumulative €200 million between the four projects put together even though they will not be physically conjoined together?

One Taoiseach said that it is the little things that catch you, and we have that syndrome. I can name for the Minister some health centres, an ambulance base and a community nursing unit, CNU, that seem to be going on forever and not getting built. These are small projects. These should be done in a matter of two or three years. There is no big principle involved in them. We are promised them. They are needed but they are not happening. Is there anything can be done to speed up these small projects that are not held up by any Government guideline but just need to get done?

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