{"id":316109,"date":"2026-02-25T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316109\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:27:09","slug":"further-e97m-to-complete-childrens-hospital-in-hse-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316109\/","title":{"rendered":"Further \u20ac97m to complete children&#8217;s hospital in HSE plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Service Executives capital plan for 2026 has been published setting out how around \u20ac1.3 billion in funding for health infrastructure, equipment and furnishing will be spent this year.<\/p>\n<p>It provides for a further \u20ac97m towards the completion of the National Children&#8217;s Hospital at the St James&#8217;s Hospital Campus and \u20ac67m to progress the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital at the St Vincent&#8217;s University Hospital campus.<\/p>\n<p>Around 143 more acute beds are to be constructed along with 415 community beds.<\/p>\n<p>\u20ac34m will go towards expanding and maintaining the national ambulance fleet.<\/p>\n<p>A provision of \u20ac263m is made towards the HSE Digital for Care Capital Plan this year.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Health Spokesperson, deputy Marie Sherlock said there was stagnant funding and ambition in the HSE capital plan, with a \u20ac14m cut in funding. <\/p>\n<p>She also said there was a &#8220;snail&#8217;s pace&#8221; bed plan not delivering the capacity required in the health service, with just 143 acute beds to be completed this year. <\/p>\n<p>Deputy Sherlock added that the HSE simply cannot deliver electronic health records, a new maternity hospital, and enhanced maternity care, plus the necessary acute beds to deal with overcrowding and demand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Health Service Executives capital plan for 2026 has been published setting out how around \u20ac1.3 billion in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-316109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}