Hospital Facilities
Dail Éireann — 2026-07-09
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

I thank the Deputy. He will not hear any complaint from me about people pressing me to deliver more health infrastructure or to spend more capital moneys. I am doing my very best to spend my entire capital allocation as quickly as possible and I run the risk of spending other people’s capital allocation, if I can be so lucky or so bold. This is because, as the Deputy said, this infrastructure investment is essential for the future.
While I do not wish to be flippant about it and, of course, we must achieve value for money and we must take the correct decisions through the right processes, we really have to aggressively spend on health infrastructure in the right way to make sure we are going to meet the very excellent challenge of having not just a growing population but an ageing population. Some of my European health colleagues do not have that same wonderful situation. Nevertheless, it creates a significant infrastructure challenge for us for the future.

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Sitting date: 2026-07-09