A total of €200m will go towards the completion of the New Children’s Hospital, which it is stated will also be commissioned.
€12.13m will be spent on radiation oncology projects under the National Cancer Control Programme.
The construction and commissioning of Block A (96-beds), at University Hospital Limerick will be completed. Planning permission is approved for the lower floors of Block B and work will continue on this project in 2025.
The Major Trauma helipad at Cork University Hospital will be completed.
The construction of the North Dublin Surgical Hub, at Swords, Co. Dublin, will be completed.
The project brief and progressing the initial design of the Elective Care Centres in Dublin will be finalised.
€173.29m will be made available to continue the expansion of the Surgical Hub Programme.
Funding of €29.24m will go to address the delivery of trauma services, set out in the Trauma System for Ireland report.
€25.71m will be provided to continue Government priority projects, such as the New National Maternity Hospital.
€16.73m will go to advance emergency department facilities nationally.
€2.38m (€8.38m including the interim beds in St. Vincent’s University Hospital) will be provided for projects delivering critical care capacity.
Finance will be provided to progress other identified projects nationally, including the Women’s Health Hub project at The Coombe Women’s Hospital, the new paediatric department at Cork University Hospital, the design of the Oncology Day Unit at Cavan General Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital, Kerry University Hospital and the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore.
The development of Aseptic Compounding Units at University Hospital Kerry, Cork University Hospital, Letterkenny University Hospital and Cavan General Hospital will be supported.
The development of a Nuclear Medicine Scanning Facility at St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar, Co. Dublin, will be advanced.
The Shared Island co-funded Daisy Lodge paediatric cancer care respite project in Cong, Co. Mayo will be progressed.
Additional acute beds across the system will be progressed in accordance with the Acute Hospital Inpatient Bed Capacity 2024- 2031. This aims to deliver a total 4,367 adult inpatient beds (including critical care), maternity and paediatric specialties. The focus is on responding to immediate urgent and emergency care pressures.
The design of 2,997 additional and 355 replacement beds in the Acute Hospital Inpatient Bed Capacity Expansion Plan will be progressed.
Detailed design, tender requirements and enabling works at several sites, including Cavan General Hospital, Wexford General Hospital, Cappagh Hospital, Mallow General Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, will be continued.
The development of critical care capacity in line with the National Strategic Plan for Critical Care will be continued.
The design processes for further new beds will be progressed.
A design team is progressing the Development Control Plan for the University Hospital Galway campus which is nearing completion. This will be followed by a detailed timeline for delivery of identified projects.
The design processes for the major trauma centres in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin and Cork University Hospital will be progressed.
A national plan for the development of a Local Injury Unit Programme will be progressed.
Surgical hub infrastructure developments to support scheduled care initiatives at Galway, Cork, Waterford and Limerick will continue to be advanced.
€5m will be provided in support of the design of the standalone centres in Cork, Galway and Connoly and Crumlin in Dublin in the Elective Hospitals Programme.
The design of Elective Care Centres in Cork and Galway will be progressed. new elective hospitals will be developed in Cork,
The Department said investment in 2025 would also facilitate the development of infrastructure to support mental health service delivery, the delivery of more Primary Care Centres, HIQA Community Nursing Unit programme and community-based infrastructure to help ensure people can access appropriate care closer to home.
