€85m will be spent on a new multi-storey car park in Cork as well as a new hospital wing containing 80 private rooms three new theatres and a new cancer centre.

Pat Lyons, Group Chief Executive, Bon Secours Health System, said: “[This] announcement reflects our response to the growing demand from our consultants, general practitioners and patients for additional facilities and services in our hospitals. “We are fully committed to a strategy which focuses on sustaining our business model and, indeed, protecting employment in the midst of an extremely challenging economic cycle”. A not-for-profit organisation, Bon Secours Health System is the largest private healthcare provider in Ireland, comprising five hospitals in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Tralee.