I raise the issue of the health services in County Galway and the Saolta University Health Care Group, which covers six counties and serves a population of over 800,000 people. We had a meeting in Galway last Thursday night. It was organised by Cancer Care West and supported by the National Breast Cancer Research Institute. It highlighted the issues that are going on. We have four projects to be undertaken in Galway. These are the accident and emergency department, which incorporates the women and children's block; the replacement laboratory building; the cancer centre and a new ward block; and a decision must also be made on an elective hospital.

We have an accident and emergency department which has been demolished to make way for a new one, but no planning permission has even been applied for. The go-ahead has not even been given to apply for planning permission. We are doing things in a haphazard way and creating a problem for the health service not only in the five counties of Connacht in the west, but also in Donegal. It is time we fast-tracked these projects and forgot about the spending codes.

Planning is an issue for the hospital, for God's sake.

Absolutely.

I mean come on. Locally, they have to get on with these things now.

It is the national estates-----

As regards the idea that the Taoiseach of the day is being asked to tell a hospital to go and apply for planning permission, there is something wrong there. I do not know what the issue is. I take the Deputy's point, though. Speaking more broadly, we want to provide additional services and, in particular, to improve cancer services. The Deputy is aware, in the context of the radiation oncology programme, that a €56 million project is currently under construction at University Hospital Galway, UHG, and not before its time. That is happening.

It is a sticking plaster.

It is not.

It is not a sticking plaster.

It is a massive, state-of-the-art radiation oncology project. It is a very positive thing. I have met with groups. There needs to be proper engagement with the Saolta University Health Care Group and the HSE-----

I thank the Taoiseach. The time is up.

-----in respect of how we put additional bed capacity in the cancer care centre and work out a quick-----

I thank the Taoiseach.

-----solution to this from a design perspective. It seems people are working in silos.