Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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357. To ask the Minister for Health the specific projects that will receive the €174 million in extra capital expenditure in 2019 as outlined in Annex 1 of the National Development Plan 2018-2027; the amount each project will receive of this €174 million in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31276/18]

Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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358. To ask the Minister for Health the specific projects that will receive the €667 million in capital funding allocated in 2019; the amount each project will receive of the €667 million in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31293/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 357 and 358 together.

The capital plan for 2019 will be developed by the Health Service Executive, in conjunction with the Department over the coming months.

The capital funding for the public health services in the ten years of the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 is €10.9 billion. This funding will provide a real, long-term opportunity to improve our health services, drive down waiting lists, increase bed capacity, reform pathways of care and modernise how we deliver services through eHealth and the implementation of Sláintecare.

The National Development Plan outlines capital funding for the Health sector for the next five years (2018 to 2022).

The major priority Government projects currently in development comprise:

- National Forensic Mental Health Services Hospital at Portrane,

- New Children’s Hospital along with the Paediatric Outpatient and Urgent Care Centres at Connolly and Tallaght Hospitals,

- National Rehabilitation Hospital Phase I

- National Plan for Radiation Oncology at Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Galway,

- Primary Care Centre Infrastructure Programme,

- Relocation of the National Maternity Hospital to the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus,

- Long-term residential accommodation programmes for older people (Community Nursing Home Programme) and peoples with disabilities to address regulatory standards for accommodation.

Health capital projects and programmes currently underway will continue and these major priority projects and programmes will require the bulk of the notified capital allocation over the initial period of the Plan, 2018-2022.