QUESTION NO: 460 DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Leo Varadkar) for WRITTEN ANSWER on 29/09/2015 * To ask the Minister for Health the HSE Estates that are delaying the tendering process for the new Endoscopy Unit at Naas General Hospital, County Kildare; if this matter can be expedited without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. Anthony Lawlor T.D.

Anthony Lawlor TD welcomed the announcement today, Tuesday, 29th September, that the Sallins bypass and N7 road widening scheme are to go ahead.

QUESTION NO: 460 DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Leo Varadkar) for WRITTEN ANSWER on 29/09/2015 * To ask the Minister for Health the HSE Estates that are delaying the tendering process for the new Endoscopy Unit at Naas General Hospital, County Kildare; if this matter can be expedited without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. Anthony Lawlor T.D.

Anthony Lawlor TD welcomed the announcement today, Tuesday, 29th September, that the Sallins bypass and N7 road widening scheme are to go ahead.

We have discussed the migrant issue at every meeting of the Assembly for several years now. And yet the numbers grew, the confrontations got worse, people continued to die and up to last week we were still talking.

€27 billion, six year, Capital Investment Plan announced today which will see major investment in Garda resources, the courts and a new forensic laboratory.

€7.5 million invested in the Institute of Technology Tralee and funding for the N22 Ballyvourney to Macroom Scheme.

Fine Gael MEP for Ireland South, Deirdre Clune is supporting a proposal of the EPP group in the European Parliament to add €500 million to the emergency support package to help dairy farmers suffering from falling milk prices. The Ireland South MEP has previously called on the Commission to increase the intervention price for milk. Speaking after a meeting today with a group of Glanbia farmers from South Kilkenny, Deirdre Clune described the situation as serious,

€27bn six year capital investment plan to secure the recovery

Fine Gael TD for Meath East, Regina Doherty, has said that the inclusion of funding for the Slane By-Pass under today’s Capital Investment Plan is great news.