Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is helpful. I am sorry for interrupting the Minister, but I have a few other questions.

The problem for this committee is that we are reading about these proposals. I am not going to get into an argument, but we sometimes find out more information from reading The Irish Timesand the Irish Independent. Articles have been published today suggesting that this fund will have a minimum of €35 billion or some figure of this nature by 2030. I know the Minister has not done this but somebody obviously has provided this information. The contents of these articles tend sometimes to be accurate and a bigger and longer conversation is to be had concerning this committee and the preparation of the budget, but I will move on.

Regarding capital project delivery, what we have seen here is that an extra €250 million will be allocated from windfall capital investment in 2024. Will the Minister outline if this is the money that is being set aside for the national children's hospital? We understand there is a bid in with the HSE. Will the Minister elaborate on what this bid is?