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The Saolta University Healthcare Group has requested funding of €1 million to advance plans for the development of a new hospital at Merlin Park in its budgetary submission to the Department of Health.

It could take up to five years before University Hospital Galway has a new emergency department.

Health Minister Simon Harris has asked the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs University and Merlin Park hospitals, to draw up a new plan for the future of these facilities taking into account any expansion needed to meet the growing demands for these services.

By Kernan Andrews

An extra 33 special needs assistants have been allocated for Galway, bringing to 771 the numbers of such SNAs supporting pupils at primary, secondary, and special schools across Galway city and county.

University Hospital Galway and Portiuncula University Hospital are participating in the National Patient Experience Survey, a new nationwide survey asking patients for their views on hospital care.

Funding for a new state-of-the-art emergency department at University Hospital Galway, which could cost up to €120m, will be included in an HSE mid term capital review due to be published in June or July.

Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon/Galway Eugene Murphy has hit out at the ongoing overcrowding issues at Portiuncula A&E department which left a number of sick children having to be transported by ambulance to the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar for treatment over the weekend.

The Galway Chamber has come out in support for a new hospital for the city to be located at Merlin Park, with chamber president Conor O’Dowd calling for a "new acute hospital" that will "meet the needs" of Galway and the West.

Funding for the planning and design of the new emergency department for UHG will be provided in the HSE’s Capital Budget for 2017. The HSE National Capital Committee this week approved the capital funding for the much-needed development.