I propose to take Questions Nos. 265 and 272 together.
My Department does not maintain comprehensive detailed information on all of the equipment requirements of individual hospitals.
Provision has been made in this year's capital programme for expenditure of the order of £1.5 million for equipment for hospitals in the Southern Health Board area. The funding of equipment requirements of Cork Regional Hospital and of the other hospitals in the area in 1993 and subsequent years will be considered in the context of the total capital funding which can be made available for hospital equipment nationally and the urgent applications on hands for priority equipment from other health boards and voluntary hospitals.