Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. He is entirely correct. I know it from my time as health Minister. We all know it and the Deputy knows it well. It is an issue of great stress and concern to people in Galway and the west and, indeed, to people having to work in the hospital, and do amazing work but in substandard infrastructural conditions.

The Government will respond in kind to the good work that has been done by that board set up in the hospital. We have already been clear on a number of projects and we will have an opportunity in the national development plan to be published in July to show further progress too.

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