Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for his question. The Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, was in here this morning with me at 9 a.m. answering questions on health for 90 minutes. Deputy Wynne put the question of University Hospital Limerick and the issues there to him. There is an acceptance and acknowledgement that there are a lot of issues with capacity but work on the new €90 million project, consisting of a 96-bed inpatient block and renal dialysis unit commenced in October 2022. The construction phase will take at least two years to complete and it is currently envisaged that it will be complete by quarter 1 of 2025. I acknowledge that the Deputy raises this continuously but we are doing everything we can to try to alleviate the pressures in patient flow throughout all acute hospital sectors.

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