National Maternity Hospital

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Questions (1735, 1839)

Mairéad Farrell

Question:

1735. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the funding spent to date on the national maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35225/21]

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1839. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the amount that has been spent to date on the new national maternity project per year since the inception of the project move to St Vincent’s Hospital grounds; and the amount that has been transferred to date to a company (details supplied) or any subsidiary connected or related to that group or owners of the group in tabular form. [35580/21]

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Written answers

Minister for Health

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1735 and 1839 together.

As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.