Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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690. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the expenditure on the list of completed works and work in progress on the enabling works for the National Maternity Hospital to date, in tabular form. [17568/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Government is committed to the development of the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) planned for the St Vincent’s University Hospital Campus at Elm Park, as set out in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future.

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. These works comprise carpark extension and relocating some SVUH departments currently on the proposed site of the new NMH, such as the pharmacy, and diverting utilities services to other locations on the SVUH campus.

In 2018 Government noted the intention to progress the awarding of the contract for a replacement pharmacy and carpark extension, as key enablers of the main development.

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

A breakdown of the expenditure to date is detailed in the table below.