Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 639: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will grant approval to the Health Service Executive South East to appoint a design team in regard to the planning brief for Waterford Regional Hospital submitted to her Department on 30 January 2003 with a request for approval of a design team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43945/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Government's sustained high level of investment in healthcare has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, the sum available for expenditure in health under the Health Service Executive's capital plan is €559.5 million.

The HSE has responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the development referred to in the Deputy's question. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.