Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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704. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE capital plan for 2019 will be finalised and published [13213/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department and the Health Service Executive are currently engaged in a process to finalise the HSE Capital Plan for 2019.

In developing its Capital Plan for 2019 and future years, the HSE must consider a range of issues including, the expenditure that is contractually committed, the HSE’s annual requirement in relation to meeting risks associated with clinical equipment, ambulances and healthcare infrastructure and the total capital exchequer funding required for the new children’s hospital.

The HSE Capital Plan will determine the projects that can progress in 2019 and beyond having regard to the available capital funding, the number of large national capital projects currently underway, the cashflow requirements attaching to each project and the relevant priority.

Projects that are currently in construction and are contractually committed will not be affected.

Once the HSE has finalised its Capital Plan for 2019, it will then be submitted to me for consideration.