When will the HSE capital programme be announced? There was a great development in recent days when planning permission was granted for Millstreet hospital. Millstreet and Kanturk hospitals are both on the capital programme. When is it going to be announced? We are heading into the second half of the year. We have not yet received an indication from the HSE of anything with regard to the capital programme.

I will bring in Deputy Butler on the same issue.

One of the last questions I asked the Taoiseach before the Christmas recess related to the HSE capital plan for 2019. As we all know, the Dáil will rise for the summer recess tomorrow. I ask the same question again. When will we have sight of the capital plan for 2019? When will we have clarity and commitment in relation to capital projects in hospitals throughout the country? Every time the estates section of the HSE is contacted, we get the same answer, which is that it cannot sign off on projects until it has sight of the capital plan. It is beyond ridiculous that in July 2019, we have yet to see the HSE capital plan for 2019.

I thank the Deputies asking about the capital plan, which is still under negotiation between the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Health. The non-publication of the plan does not, in itself, prevent capital projects from going ahead. No capital plan at all was published last year, yet the Dunmore wing was built at University Hospital Waterford and new wings were built in hospitals in Limerick and Clonmel, to give three examples. Those who are saying that the non-publication of a capital plan prevents projects from going ahead need to look out their windows and see the projects that have gone ahead.

We have been promised a capital plan.