Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)
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140. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the delivery of the capital programme for Beaumont Hospital; and for an update, as of Q1 2025. [24097/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I am pleased to update you on the progress of key capital developments at Beaumont Hospital.

There are a number of significant proposals for capital investment, and all are progressing through the requisite design and planning stages. As this is a live hospital campus there is an added complexity in terms of planning, sequencing and enabling each of these projects. Our Model 4 acute hospitals require a significant amount of enabling works to prepare for larger projects. These key enabling pieces are ongoing at Beaumont.

In October 2024, planning permission for a 95-bed ward block was granted. The proposal is now at detailed design. A 64-bed Critical Care Unit (CCU) is dependent on relocation of the existing Endoscopy Department. In March 2025, final grant of planning was received for this new Endoscopy Department. It is now progressing through to detailed design stage. In parallel, design of the 64 bed CCU is underway at preliminary design stage.

On 8 April 2025, the proposed new Emergency Department at Beaumont Hospital received a grant of planning. A final grant of planning is due later this month. The project can then move to detailed design stage.

Work is also underway to progress a Pre-tender Business Case for the Radiation Oncology Unit.

These proposals are being managed through the HSE capital development process in line with the Infrastructure Guidelines.