Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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621. To ask the Minister for Health as part of his Department’s capital expenditure plan, if he will provide funding for a new hospital in Cork, as recommended in the report Reconfiguration of Acute Hospital Services, Cork and Kerry by the non-executive advisory board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28813/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The report Reconfiguration of Acute Hospital Services Cork and Kerry recommended a new elective hospital for Cork which would amalgamate Mercy and South Infirmary Victoria University Hospitals. It was recommended that the hospital should be built in a modular fashion, over a 10 to 15 year period. My Department's view is that any such development is very much a long term aspiration, and the need for same will have to be prioritised by the HSE in the context of other capital requirements around the country.