Galway Bay fm newsroom – Plans for a major expansion at Galway Clinic have been given the go ahead.
The private hospital at Doughiska will now push ahead with plans for a new A&E and diagnostic and treatment facilities such as cardiac catheter labs.
The extension will also incorporate a new café adjacent to the emergency unit.
City planners have attached 10 conditions.
One stipulates that the developer is to pay the local authority a contribution of over 105 thousand euro.
Construction is to be carried out Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm and between 9am and 1pm on Saturdays.
Denis Coen is General Manager at Galway Clinic – he says the group would like to see work begin in 12 to 18 months.