Tom Brabazon (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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100. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the new critical care unit at Beaumont Hospital [64414/25]

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 including the new critical care unit.

There are several significant proposals for capital investment in Beaumont. All are progressing through the requisite design and planning stages. The HSE is managing the capital development process in line with the Infrastructure Guidelines.

As 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.

Proposals for the 64-bed Critical Care Unit (CCU) are at a preliminary design stage. The CCU is dependent on the relocation of the existing Endoscopy Department. In March 2025, a final grant of planning was received for the new Endoscopy unit and the proposal is now progressing through to detailed design stage.

Other priority proposals are progressing at Beaumont which may proceed in advance of the CCU. These include a 95-bed ward block and the proposed new Emergency Department, both of which have planning permission and are at detailed design stage. A Pre-tender Business Case for the expansion of the Radiation Oncology Unit has also recently been submitted to the HSE’s Capital Planning Steering Group (CPSG) for review and enabling works to support that important investment are well advanced.