Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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611. To ask the Minister for Health if there was a separate business case or analysis to justify the public expenditure on an enhanced pharmacy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15781/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As part of the NMH relocation project, enabling works were undertaken to prepare the site of the new NMH and de-risk the campus in advance of the construction works for the new hospital. This included a replacement pharmacy and carpark extension. In 2018 Government noted the intention to progress the awarding of the contract for a replacement pharmacy and multistorey carpark extension, as key enablers of the main NMH relocation project.

This first phase of work commenced on the site in February 2019 and the pharmacy and multistorey car park extension were completed in 2021 and both are fully operational.

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