Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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140. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); the likely timeline involved; if consideration will be given to using the adjacent Covid-19 assessment unit at later point as an interim measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50816/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The extension project to the Emergency Department at Mayo University Hospital comprises a new ground floor extension to the ED, reconfiguration of the existing ED (7 additional ED assessment & treatment spaces), and a new first floor Medical Assessment Unit (10 spaces). 

It is planned that a design team will be selected, and that the design process will commence, by January 2022.  An indicative project timeline envisages completion of construction in 2026.

There are no plans at present to use the Covid-19 assessment unit as in interim measure.