Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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247. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the funding that is being allocated for the reorganisation of national maternity services as per the €3 billion allocation in the capital investment plan 2016-21; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the National Maternity Hospital to the St. Vincent's University Hospital campus; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the Rotunda Hospital to Connolly Hospital; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to St. James's Hospital; the funding that is being provided for the relocation of services at the University Maternity Hospital Limerick to the University Hospital Limerick; and the timeframe for the funding for each of these; and the details of what is covered in these plans within the 2016-2021 timeframe. [11965/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The relocation of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) to the St Vincent's University Hospital campus is one of the six priority projects for which funding has been indented over the multi-annual period. These six priority projects - the new Children's Hospital, the National Plan for Radiation Oncology at Cork and Galway, the National Forensic Mental Health Services (NFMHS) Facilities Project at Portrane, the Primary Care Infrastructure Programme and the long-stay residential accommodation programme for Older People and Persons with a disability and the NMH relocation - will require the bulk of the capital allocation over the period.

The relocation of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital to Saint James's Hospital was announced last year. Construction of the new Children's Hospital on the St James's Hospital campus must be completed before the enabling works and construction of replacement maternity hospital can begin. The relocation of the Rotunda Hospital to Connolly Hospital which was also announced last year, is at a very early stage of development. Sufficient funding has been indented to complete a Cost Benefit Analysis for the relocation of the Limerick Maternity Hospital. While estimated costs have been identified these are preliminary and provisional at this stage. The potential use of the PPP mechanism for one location is being investigated by the HSE.