John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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443. To ask the Minister for Health the capital expenditure on the national children's hospital in December 2017; the month that coincided with the European Investment Bank, EIB, confirming its capital investment loan in the same project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6723/19]

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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444. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of the EIB loan approved for the national children's hospital in December 2017 vis-à-vis the complete hospital project. [6724/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 443 and 444 together.

Expenditure on the construction of the new children’s hospital and associated outpatient and urgent care centres up to the end of December 2017 was €127.79m. The European Investment Bank is providing a loan of €490 million to Ireland to support the project. This represented 50% of the capital cost estimate in 2017 in respect of this project, which was €983m.