Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if phase 3C of Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, is included in the Health Service Executive revised capital plan for the remainder of the national development plan; and if so, when construction will commence. [14936/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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In drawing up its capital programme, 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, taking account of the NDP targets for division of capital investment between the Acute and the Primary, Community & Continuing Care sectors.

The Executive has recently submitted a draft capital plan which sets out its proposed capital priorities in the context of the adjusted capital allocation notified in Budget 2009 and the further adjustments announced in February in the Government Decision on the Implementation of the Framework for Stabilisation, Social Solidarity and Economic Renewal. Consultation on this draft capital plan is currently ongoing between the HSE and my Department. The draft capital plan will now require some further adjustment to take account of the revised capital envelope announced in the Supplementary Budget on 7th April.

Details on individual projects will not be known until such time as the capital plan for 2009 is approved.