Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 608: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will include phase 3C of Naas General Hospital in the final 2008 Health Service Executive capital plan. [31245/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Project proposals have, following a detailed process of consideration, been prioritised by the Health Service Executive so as to fit within indicative funding levels under the National Development Plan. In drawing up its Capital Plan the Health Service Executive is required to prioritise the capital infrastructure projects to be progressed within its overall capital funding allocation under the National Development Plan 2007-2013, taking account of the NDP targets for division of capital investment between the Acute and Primary, Community & Continuing Care pillars. Although the project referred to was not prioritised for inclusion by the Executive this year 2008, Naas General Hospital has benefited from a completed major capital project in recent years. In 2003, a €75m capital project comprising the following departments was completed — Main Entrance Concourse, Out Patient Department, Accident & Emergency, Radiology Department, Pharmacy, Pathology Department, Operating Department, Intensive Care Unit & Coronary Care Unit, Inpatient Wards, Day hospital for Older People and a Rehabilitation/Assessment Ward for Older People.